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Trucks in the Street. Maybe that explains why Clemente is an insomniac who says: "Anything makes noise while I'm in bed, I hear it-a truck outside the hotel, a footstep in the hall." And that he is widely regarded as an unreconstructed hypochondriac, whose headaches, colds, cramps and nervous stomach come from worrying-about his headaches, colds, cramps and stomach. Even so, Roberto, says Pittsburgh Manager Harry Walker, "is just the best player in baseball, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Old Aches & Pains | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...last years as a recluse in a Paris suburb, seeing only his loyal wife. Yet this same man was a hero of World War I for a voluntary exploit in which he suffered a severe head wound. Brain injury left him hallucinated, plagued by noises in his head, an insomniac whose sanity was often questioned. Despite this, he became a physician and, under his real name, Dr. Henri-Louis Destouches, he chose to live among the poor of Paris, often practicing without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rage Against Life | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

Making his playwriting debut, Nightclub Comic Woody Allen fills the stage with a parade of gags that hurtle past like an insomniac's sheep, some woolly, some sheared and some weird. The evening is affluent with easy laughs, and yet curiously anemic in genuine humor. Lou Jacobi and Kay Medford are masters of ethnically styled comic delivery. He gives a line a built-in shrug. She is a one-woman keening committee, and her voice has a cold in its head. The couple's common burden is a Gentile nudnick of an embassy chief who has suffered every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Diasporadic Fun | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...their dedication-and their explosiveness-the Irish are practically a mirror image of their coach. An Armenian Protestant who came to Catholic Notre Dame from Northwestern in 1963 and overnight restored its long-tarnished reputation for football excellence, Ara Parseghian (TIME cover, Nov. 20, 1964) is an intense, electric insomniac who works 18-hour days, delights in locker-room oratory, and hates anything dull, especially dull football. He has always had a knack for developing topnotch passers and receivers-"probably," cracks Navy Coach Bill Elias, "because his ancestors got practice catching figs that fell out of trees." At Northwestern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Football: Babes in Wonderland | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

When I last heard of Long Gone Niles he was singing in the now defunct Insomniac in Hernosa Beach. At Newport Long Gone evoked memories of early, classic rock and roll with "Shake it, Baby, Shake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Folk Festival Fails to Excite | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

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