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...benefit for the Better Boys Foundation. Gault, 26, put in five practice sessions (but no chalk talk) for his number to the music of Webern. He was partnered by Ballerina Maria Terezia Balogh, whom he lifted with the greatest of ease before an appreciative audience that included Teammate Jim McMahon. Says Balogh of her dancing Bear: "He was very gentle, very relaxed and very sensitive." But not without reservations about tackling the finer arts. "I didn't know if I'd want to run around in public with tights on," concedes Gault, who nevertheless wants "to be an actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 13, 1986 | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

Quarterbacks are always at peril, but they seem to be falling at an accelerated rate. The Bears' Jim McMahon, the Raiders' Marc Wilson and the Colts' Gary Hogeboom all have injured shoulders. A master at developing young quarterbacks, 49ers Coach Bill Walsh is left with Jack Kemp's son Jeff, 27, a substitute for five seasons with the Los Angeles Rams, and Journeyman Mike Moroski. Neither can be expected to match the two-time MVP of the Super Bowl. By a complicated system the N.F.L. employs for measuring quarterbacks, Miami's Dan Marino has just dislodged Montana as the highest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Montana Felled | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...McMahon, Football player. Harvard has the big men up front and the speed outside. What the Crimson has always lacked is the kind of veteran signal caller who can bring the whole squad together when the going gets tough. The Crimson's got the talent, but the question that hangs over them game after game is: will they come to play? McMahon comes to play every week, and he is available for Bok and a pair of second-round draft choices...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Wanted: One University President | 9/25/1986 | See Source »

When it comes to flinging a football and blowing off steam, nobody puts it together better than Jim McMahon. So the Chicago Bears quarterback was a natural to talk about stress for Connections, a biweekly series of billboard topics posted in 1,500 high schools around the country. Despite the munching pose he struck for one poster, McMahon rarely takes it out on the ball. His tips for coping with strain: "I never really worry about things before they happen. I let things happen and I deal with them then . . . It's important to keep your sense of humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 15, 1986 | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...featuring such fare as vegetarian pita-bread sandwiches, diet cheeseburgers, frozen yogurt and light beer. The chain grew from one Atlanta outlet in 1981 to about 100 restaurants in 19 states last year. But now D'Lites may be down to its final few bites. Company President Jefferson McMahon, a former Arby's executive who was hired only last November to tighten up D'Lites' management, abruptly quit the top job last week. The chain acknowledged that it may soon have to seek bankruptcy protection unless it can arrange an infusion of new capital. D'Lites lost $18.7 million during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Franchising: A Last Meal for D'Lites? | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

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