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Michael Allinson largely supports the play in his lead role as the successful mystery writer Andrew Wyke. Allinson struts around the stage like a long-legged bird secure on its own rocky turf, waving his arms and laughing from his belly while populating his imagination with his ace detective St...

Author: By Gilbert B. Kaplan, | Title: The Macabre Annals of Crime | 12/19/1972 | See Source »

They have the elegance of long dresses but the ease of a pair of jeans. They fall handsomely over the clunky platform shoes that are so popular today. They are palazzo pants-wide-legged trousers that fit tightly at the hips but swell to bell-bottoms as much as five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Baggy Britches | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

> The largest was found by Brigham Young University's James A. Jensen,* a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), lanky scientist known as "Dinosaur Jim," who worked as a taxidermist, welder, carpenter and longshoreman before turning to paleontology. Last year, on a tip from two amateur rock collectors, Jensen began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Two Superlatives | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

> The oldest find was made by Norman Wakefield, 53, who, like Jensen, is also a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), rangy digger. On holidays from his post as head of the biology department at the teachers' college of Melbourne's Monash University, he likes nothing better than to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Two Superlatives | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

Linda Hackett, wife of a New York oil executive, taught herself to sew several years ago when she couldn't find pants for her long-legged, size-8 frame. Soon she began designing her own slacks-and got more than a good fit for her efforts. One day at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A Time to Sew | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

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