Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Summoning up remembrance of gay things past, officials of the mellow (founded in 1768) London publishing firm of John Murray, Ltd., unlocked for a TIME reporter a keepsake secured from a best-selling client of long ago, the amorous, glamorous 19th century poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. Inside a musty tin box were dozens of tiny parchment packages, each inscribed with the name and date of a comely comrade, each containing a specimen of the lady's locks. Handsomest of the hairlooms was a lustrous, 2½ ft. pony tail, still scented with the aroma of pomade, which...
Sweeping down a long wet hill, Mike was doing about 100 m.p.h. when he hurtled past a Mercedes-driving friend (who denies that any race was involved). Ahead of him, the friend saw the Jaguar suddenly go into a long skid. "I thought: 'Good old Mike. He'll soon flick out of that one.' " But this time, Mike Hawthorn's practiced skill was not enough. The Jaguar whipped into the opposite lane, clipped an oncoming truck, rolled over twice, bounced off a tree, ended, a battered pile of junk, in a roadside hedge. It took firemen...
...heavyweight boxing title is a European. He is Sweden's Ingemar ("Ingo") Johansson, who last September took only one round to knock out the U.S.'s visiting Eddie Machen, up to then rated the No. 1 contender for Floyd Patterson's crown. In the past, Patterson's unpredictable manager Cus D'Amato has not matched his man with any fighter who could possibly be considered dangerous. But last week Johansson flew into Manhattan, held a summit meeting with D'Amato, got an agreement "in principle" for a Patterson-Johansson fight in June. Place...
With heart attacks and strokes causing about half of all U.S. deaths, eight eminent physicians (including five past presidents of the American Heart Association*) issued last week a check list of danger signals. Their belief is that while medical science gropes for definitive measures, attention to these signals "will prolong life for many at this time." First comes heredity: granted that "You are 'stuck' with your heredity," the group contends that if either a parent or grandparent died prematurely of arterial disease, "it is most important that you minimize the effect of the other factors." The others: being...
...405th performance, became New York's third longest running musical, behind Oklahoma! (2,248) and South Pacific (1,925). Gross of the 229-seat Theater de Lys totals $1,250,000 -more than the combined take of the other top 18 off-Broadway shows for the past ten years...