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Performer & Critic. Carson's bag is unpredictability, not only in his offhand humor but in his visual performance. He is General Eclectic himself, a master of a thousand takes. He's got a Jack Paar smile, a Jack Benny stare, a Stan Laurel fluster. If a joke dies, he waits a second, and then yawns a fine Ed Sullivan "Ho-o-okay. . ." A sudden thought-either his or a guest's-will launch him into an imitation of Jona than Winters imitating an old granny. He can spread his eyes wide open into a wow. Semi-emancipated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Midnight Idol | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

Padriac and Harry Spence, pedalling a tandem racer, zipped across the finish line 17 seconds ahead of freshman Chase to receive a laurel wreath and a kiss each from Debby Hall, equipment director for the Wellesley Outing Club, which, along with the Harvard Outing Club, sponsored the affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Pedals to Slow Victory in Wellesley Race | 4/25/1967 | See Source »

...bullet-resistant Plexiglas case surrounded by crimson velvet and framed in a period frame specially adapted for it by Manhattan Framemaker Robert Kulicke (who charged $1,240 for 62 hours' work). Visitors could observe both the 151-in. by 141-in. portrait and the juniper-and-laurel device on the reverse side of its wooden panel, inscribed with a scroll: Virtutem Forma Decorat (Beauty Enhances Virtue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Enhanced Beauty | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...world would be better off when everybody was a little tea-colored. Interbreeding may still be a radical concept as far as a lot of people are concerned, but it is old stuff to race horses. The field for last week's $150,000 Washington D.C. International at Laurel Race Course included ten horses from seven different countries, and it seemed more like a family reunion than a meeting of strangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: All in the Family | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...usually wind up the favorites, but they generally have little experience running on grass-particularly at the classic European distance of H miles. Going into last week's 15th International, foreign horses had won the race seven times. None of that stopped bettors from pouring $446,699 into Laurel's parimutuel machines, most of it on Assagai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: All in the Family | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

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