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...puts on a one-man show with a cast of five? Tony winner Martin Short, who returns to Broadway next week in the musical comedy Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. Short, 56, is best known for the zany characters he created for SCTV and Saturday Night Live. The Emmy Award--winning jack-of-all-trades talked with TIME's Amy Lennard Goehner about angst, the birth of Ed Grimley, and celebrity navel gazing...
...seconds Length of the inaugural flight of a one-man, battery-powered aircraft in Tokyo last week, the first flight of its kind 160 Number of conventional AA batteries used to power the plane...
...women fall at Mike's feet, from the impact of his blows or the surly machismo of his swagger. Of course there's a darker view of this unchecked brutality, this out-lawman with a feudal ethical code. That's that Hammer is a bully with a grudge - a one-man fascist state, and I don't mean Italy...
...recently returned to TIME after two years of running the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, a wonderful new museum and educational center on Independence Mall. While there, I got to know the great historian David McCullough, who has been on a one-man campaign to end the epidemic of what he calls historical illiteracy. I believe that our Making of America series is an antidote to historical illiteracy, which David describes as a great danger to our democracy. Being an American is not based on a common ancestry, a common religion, even a common culture--it's based on accepting...
...saturnine and phenomenally wealthy, with a plump red nose caused by the skin disease rhinophyma, Morgan held immense power over the U.S. economy. In a day when there was no Federal Reserve to control the money supply or tweak interest rates, he operated at times as the nation's one-man central bank. By withdrawing his approval from a shaky deal, he could cause a panic. By pouring millions into tottering banks, he could end one. He did more than assemble capital for new ventures. He took over mismanaged companies, installed his own men and supervised operations. As he exercised...