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Forebears of Puttencove Promise and the thousands of other poodles in the U.S. were working dogs, alert, spring-legged animals, clever enough to serve as performers in traveling French circuses. They were capable retrievers in the field; their sensitive noses and remarkable swimming ability made them favorites among hunters. Virtually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pampered Poodle | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Rites of Passage. As a 5 ft. 9 in. freshman on the Baton Rouge High School team, Pettit was so awkward he was cut from the squad. Then he began to grow, by his senior year was 6 ft. 7 in., and, although he moved like an unhinged giraffe, scored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Golden Hawk | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

January. Sir Edmund Hillary will deny ASPCA charges that he used penguins to pull his sled when he reached the South Pole. Sir Edmund will say, "The birds are not only bow-legged, but paunchy. The charge is ridiculous." Back in Cambridge, Dean Watson will be fired for having purchased...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and Taurus | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

After semi-singing his way through more than 600 performances of Broadway's nonstop musical My Fair Lady, Actor Rex Harrison sailed away from his historic stint. Bound with him for Europe was his bride of five months, long-legged, luscious Cinemactress Kay (Les Girls) Kendall. The couple were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 9, 1957 | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

Robert Frost (Caedmon) proves a happy exception to the rule that poets cannot read their own works as well as actors. Frost's cracked voice often sounds like that of the first progenitor of mankind, and his lucid verse sings of subjects appropriate to that early time - the whisper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spoken Word | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

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