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...clown. She can fumble a cigarette between her teeth like a crazed nicotine addict and fire off machine-gun bursts of smoke. She can walk as if her body were an afterthought, or collapse in a chair like a punctured accordion. She can chew grammar like bubble gum, or make English ring with the elegance of George III's crystal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Please Don't Pick on Daisy | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...looked and sounded like a family reunion. To be sure, Tom Coleman was on trial for killing a Yankee civil rights worker. But no one gathered in the slave-built, whitewashed Lowndes County courthouse - least of all the paunchy, gum-chewing defendant - allowed that to interfere with the civilities. There, grinning across the court room, was Coleman's nephew, Robert Coleman Black, one of his defense attorneys. A defense witness was a first cousin. Mrs. Kelley Coleman, the court clerk, was a cousin by marriage. The defendant's own name even appeared on the list of potential jurors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: A License to Kill | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...Phyllis Curtin makes the same point in terms of everyday life by noting that "children sing when they really mean it: 'You're a dirty bul-ly.' " She even illustrates music's power by citing, "Double your pleasure / Double your fun, / With Doublemint, Doublemint, / Doublemint gum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: OPERA: Con Amore | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...Smith is a very meticulous man. At the plant of his Wolverine Aluminum Corp. in Lincoln Park, Mich., where aluminum corners, gutters and sills for houses are made, he rides about in a small electric cart, making sure that workers use ashtrays and do not throw gum wrappers on the floor. When Smith listed his growing firm (1964 sales: $7.2 million) on the American Stock Exchange last month, he traveled to Manhattan to get the usual VIP treatment: a tour of the exchange, lunch with the officers, the chance to buy the first shares of the traded stock. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Demand to Delist | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...vast laboratory program are pills to color hair and tablets to increase mental concentration. The company is also developing a line of men's cosmetics, including colognes and skin moisturizers. This may seem a bit far out, but after all, any company that can put chewing gum in orbit may just be the one to put moisturizing lotions on stubbly chins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: The Governor's Face Lift | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

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