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There he quickly learned English, finished high school in a year and a half, and relearned the ways of civilization. Ruefully, he recalls his reaction when a boy teasingly slipped a banana peel in his pocket: "I swung a Landsberg jailhouse punch at him," acting "as if he wanted to kill [me]." But Pisar had for gotten how to apologize. "I had been in hell too deeply and too long. The next day presented him with two pounds of bananas...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: The Long Road | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

...Hackett, 50, of the St. Louis police force, you enlist that myopic master of outrageous disguise from Middlesex, England, Reginald Kenneth Dwight. In standard police clothing and cruiser, Hackett and Dwight then casually drive the 15 blocks to the Gateway Arch. Once backstage, Dwight looks around, then begins to peel the blue to reveal a black matador outfit trimmed with gold sequins, a gold belt and a pink sash, and his true identity for more than a decade: Elton John, 35. The crowd gets its man, but the police lose a future New Centurion. Says Hackett wistfully: "He looks pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 19, 1982 | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

DIED. Joseph Peel Jr., 58, Florida municipal judge convicted in 1961 of helping to murder a superior judge who was threatening to reveal Peel's corrupt practices on the bench; of cancer; in Jacksonville. Peel denied having his accuser weighted down and thrown into the sea from a rented boat. But on his deathbed he owned up to knowing about it: "I'm guilty of not using my influence to stop what was going to happen, and I could have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 19, 1982 | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

...Allen's other work so effective is that his own ever present character has been someone everyone can laugh at but the cruel fact is that while we always laugh, we never really care what happens to him. We laugh at the guy who slips on the banana peel and think, "Thank God it wasn't me." Up till now, Allen has walked through a United Fruit warehouse to show us what we fear...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Allen's Power Failure | 4/27/1982 | See Source »

MARRIED. Diana Rigg, 43, alluring British actress (Broadway's Jumpers and The Misanthrope) who also played TV's Emma Peel in The Avengers; and Archie Stirling, 40, Scottish businessman; both for the second time; in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 5, 1982 | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

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