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What's 6 ft. 4 in. tall, throws a knockout punch, and has long furry ears? It's John Wayne, drawling veteran of over 200 he-man films, dressed up in a rabbit costume. With enthusiastic support from Laugh-ln's comedienne Sarah Kennedy, Wayne is impersonating the Easter bunny on next month's opening of Laugh-In. Acting the role of a rabbit did not come easily. When he arrived onstage, the Duke growled: "The first guy who snickers gets a broken face." After the ordeal was over, he remarked: "I felt pretty funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 14, 1972 | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

Married. Dick Martin, 49, har-de-har half of television's Rowan and Martin comedy team and Laugh-ln's slathering bachelor-in-residence; and Dolly Read, 24, English Playboy-Bunny-turned-actress; he for the second time, she for the first; in Honolulu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 6, 1971 | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

...when you can wrap the lesson in a joke? Example: the cast passes around a Styrofoam letter J. Each one repeats, "J," until the object reaches Cookie Monster. He booms: "D." The cast choruses: "D?" Monster: "Licious!" And he eats it. Guest teachers drop in all the time. Laugh-ln's Arte Johnson, in his traditional German helmet, discusses height: "Tall people bump their heads a lot and short people don't." Carol Burnett describes the various virtues of the nose, forgets one, and then remembers­just in time to sneeze. James Earl Jones recites the alphabet­so slowly that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Who's Afraid of Big, Bad TV? | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...Writer Samuel Coleridge seems to have been wondering about the polluted Rhine [July 4] in 1807 when he wrote: In Köln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fang'd with murderous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 18, 1969 | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...Work-ln. Yet one place where aides are most grossly underpaid and underrated, and where they have recently staged a dramatic revolt on behalf of themselves and their patients, is Topeka State Hospital. Kansas' state capital, with a population of only 133,000, has long proclaimed itself on roadside signs as "the Psychiatric Center of the World." That was based largely on the fame of the Menninger brothers, Karl A. and the late William C., and their private C. F. Menninger Memorial Hospital, universally miscalled "the Menninger Clinic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psychiatry: Revolt of the Aides | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

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