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...shadow-boxing whenever and wherever the fancy strikes him. His blond hair has silvered satisfactorily, and his craggily handsome face is tanned and as well-creased as an heirloom Gladstone bag. Goodie gave up smoking after he got ulcers; instead, he chews up to two packs of Doublemint gum a day. He drinks sparingly, and, like many Californians, he is a health-food addict. One of his favorite beverages: cabbage juice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Don Juan in Heaven | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...Gum!" At an exhibit of tropical plants, the President encountered the alligator, a three-footer from Florida. When the attendant said that the grinning reptile would bite, the President backed up. "Well," he said, "he's not going to bite me, by gum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Alligator & the Squirrels | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...Mountaineers into the N.C.A.A. playoffs by beating George Washington University almost singlehanded. In a tense overtime period, Hot Rod had really turned it on. He fired a foul shot-and sank it-from behind his back. With time running out, he stood there, calmly chomping on his bubble gum while he twirled the ball on the tip of his banana-broad fingers. When two G.W. defenders moved in on him, he rolled the basketball down his back and flipped away an accurate left-handed pass. Driven to distraction, one G.W. player waited impatiently till he got his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hot Rod Cools Off | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...difficult. What good, for instance, is a death certificate written on the bark of a baobab tree along a branch of the upper Zambezi? So WHO decided that what it needed was something like the U.S. income-tax collector's 1040-A-a short form that nobody can gum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Short Form | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...against the window of the landing plane, saw the huge crowd below and muttered. "Oh, no!" When he emerged, the bobby-soxers shrilled, "We want Frankie!" while 10,000 fans fought for positions. One well-dressed woman kicked off her shoes and started climbing a wire fence as the gum-chewing singer hurried off to a 75-minute press conference. It might have been 1945 in the U.S., when Frankie was the teen-age rage, but it was 1955 in Sydney, Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: U.S. Stars Down Under | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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