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...week's hearings began, Dave himself sat down in the committee room, rolled out about 30 Fifth Amendment pleas in 32 minutes. But if Dave was not talking, his former business associates were -and what they had to say should have made Dave leap out of his expensive lizard-skin shoes. The talkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: His Majesty the Wheel | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...been invited to record Bach's six Unaccompanied Suites, long identified as a specialty of ailing Cellist Pablo Casals. Next season Piatigorsky will take a "sabbatical" to pursue two of his other interests-oceanography ("You know what oceanographers do on their vacation? They go in the water") and lizard and snake collecting ("It's extraordinary how intolerant people are about snakes"). But there will still be music. His 19-year-old daughter plays the flute, his 17-year-old son the clarinet, the nurse a flute clarinet, his wife the bassoon. "It is an odd combination," says Piatigorsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Grischa & Sir William | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...general company (Dan Dailey, Ginger Rogers, Barbara Rush) is quite pleasant, and Tony Randall in his best scene provides a hilarious footnote to an era in which the lounge lizard has been replaced by the couch cowboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...could gallop along a picket fence and pick off every sun-basking lizard with a pistol. "I'm the champ," said he. and jovially charmed nearly everyone he met. Seven early years of work and study in Philadelphia-he never stopped rooting for the Phillies-gave him close U.S. ties. President Eisenhower, who sent his own surgeon. Major General Leonard D. Heaton, to try to save Tacho, noted in a message of condolence that Somoza "emphasized, both publicly and privately, his friendship for the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: The Champ is Dead | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...soon as he had finished, all the other animals produced paper from nowhere in particular, and began to scribble as fast as they could. Alice noticed that the Lizard, who was sitting in the front row, was the only one wrote anything original. All the others copied from his paper, and crowded round him so closely that Alice was afaraid the poor little creature would be smothered. Meanwhile the frog looked at the ceiling. "He couldn't look anywhere else, poor thing," thought Alice; "his eyes are in the top of his head...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: A Half-Century of Harvard in Fiction | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

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