Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...photographs. His most recent feat was painting John XXIII, immediately after his elevation as Pope, in 24 hours for the Nov. 10, 1958 issue of TIME. Last week, when wakened at 8 a.m. on Wednesday and asked to paint Spaceman Gagarin in a hurry, Artist Chaliapin had an unusual handicap. The night before was "my 19th wedding anniversary, but I forgot it. Then my wife told me and we celebrated-my wife Helcia and my daughter Irene-drinking vodka until 4 a.m." It was Wednesday nightfall before enough wirephotos and other material had come in for Chaliapin to work from...
...first time in three years, the Crimson track team is favored to beat Army today. But if anything, the team is laboring under an even greater handicap than it did when it upset the Cadets 76 1/2-63 1/2 last year, and it's all because of the weather...
...snipped off by an unfriendly shark in the islands. But the story is as unreal as his menu. Born in California, he grew up in Oakland, where his parents ran a small grocery. At the age of six, a tuberculosis attack cost him his left leg; despite the handicap, Bergeron was so agile on his crutches that he played for his grammar school soccer team. He quit school at 16, two years later was able to buy his first wooden leg. For the next 13 years he bummed around from job to job, finally winding...
...film biography of Sigmund Freud, Director John (The Misfits) Huston modestly admitted that the work "has given me a new insight into the minds of some of the stars I have directed." Pressed for an example. Huston promptly picked on thrice-married Marilyn Monroe. "I think her big handicap is that she is unable to live up to her sex symbol status in real life. In fact, I don't think she really cares very much about...
Einaudi and Safran, both members of the "Fair Play for Cuba" committee, felt that Eisenhower's move would handicap Kennedy. "Eisenhower should have held the line for at least sixteen days," Einaudi commented. Safran maintained that the move would tie Kennedy's hands and was therefore "unforgivable" at this time...