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...that can suggest Janis Joplin. Her partner, Toni Brown, a pretty Bennington graduate, sings, stomps around the stage, plays electric piano and organ, and writes songs about what it is like to be a woman ("Time goes, and the baby keeps growin', and I can't help knowin', baby I love you"). The girls -backed by three males, Fritz Kasten, 27, drums, Ron Wilson, 37, congas, and Jeff Neighbor, 28, bass-produce a reasonably rich mixture of blues, wailing gospel and riffs of pure country, folk and hard rock, all curiously overlaid with Latin conga rhythms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Female Rock | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

...been a wicked ol' man," confesses Thorpe. "But one thing I've never done is rob anyone of money." Money, he says, was never his aim. "It was the sheer thrill of moving in and out of the trees and bushes, the excitement of never knowin' what might happen next to you. You get a lovely eastern sky at dawn and the geese comin' in toward you−it's a picture some people never see in their entire lives. If I had my time over again, I wouldn't do any different." Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Wild-Goose Man | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

From Harvard came ten thousand men But the M-D dogs ran away to their den Knowin' if they came back again The Charles would be their home-o home-o, home-o, etc. David Maynard '67 Arra Avaklan '67 Robert Hammer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ballad for Minutemen | 11/24/1964 | See Source »

...management are sure that in Roberts they own baseball's biggest bargain. Even in front of a losing team he wins so often that he more than earns his salary (about $60,000, including income from endorsements)-and incidentally disproves Indiana Humorist Kin Hubbard's snide crack: "Knowin' all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein' a good whittler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Whole Story of Pitching | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...been a pretty hopeless drunkard since he was 18. In sober intervals, he managed to succeed as a poet and novelist. Married twice, he had sacrificed both devoted women, in turn, to his love for liquor. All the usual treatments had failed: psychiatry, mental hospitals, sanitariums, Alcoholics Anonymous. Knowin, that he was on the verge of insanity, and terrified by his hallucinations, he took a job as attendant in a mental hospital. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mad Man | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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