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...until the top of the ninth at Boston's Fenway Park last week that fellow Red Sox Pitcher Al Nipper asked Roger Clemens if he knew he needed only two more strikeouts to set an all-time record. Clemens didn't know, but the news was inspiring. "That entire inning was all adrenaline," recalls the Ohio-born right-hander, who rared back and got the two more Ks, to beat the Seattle Mariners 3-1 and, more important, to become the first player to record 20 strikeouts in a nine-inning game. Clemens, who eight months ago had arthroscopic shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 12, 1986 | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...moves left the Red Sox with nine pitchers, with At Nipper scheduled to come off the disabled list on April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 4/5/1985 | See Source »

...Lord of the Rings (1978) into animated features posed insufficient challenge to a man who contains Whitmanesque multitudes. Now he would tell, in an hour and a half of cartoons, the story of 20th century America and its popular music. American Pop would be a nipper version of Disney's Fantasia, and something more: a dirge for lost patriarchy, for the sermons and sins of fathers everywhere, personified by four generations of American pops. One father would die in a tsarist pogrom; the next would become a friend of organized crime; the third would eat Nazi bullets in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Punk Fantasia | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

Animals like RCA's famous Nipper, an English fox terrier first seen in 1900 listening to His Master's Voice, have long been a favorite advertising come-on. But now a Noah's Ark of furry little friends is barking, growling and clucking to promote products. In the process, the animals are earning stunning salaries. The Ford Motor Co. has just spent $40,000 for the services of two lynxes, one for close-ups and one for jumps, in three commercials for its new Mercury Lynx cars. Grizzly bears regularly command $1,000 a day, and nimble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wags to Riches | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...London, "The Fair One," as she is known to her U.S. fans, confesses to be "stunned and astonished" by her unexpected fame but more preoccupied with the imminent birth of her first child. Lewis urged fans to "name the nipper." The winners: Octavia and Llewellyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: A Star Is Born | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

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