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Divorced. Mickey Rooney. 38, pint-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) Hollywoodian admirer of taller girls (his first three wives: Ava Gardner, 5 ft. 5½ in.; Betty Jane Rase, 5 ft. 7½ in.; Martha Vickers, 5 ft. 4 in.); by Elaine Mahnken, 29, 5 ft. 5 in. ex-model; after six years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 1, 1959 | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

Darkroom Short Cut. A one-step photo-developing solution that replaces the three separate solutions now commonly used (developer, stop-bath, hypo) is being sold by Manhattan's Cormac Chemical Corp. Called Cormac Unibath, it cuts development time to six minutes v. current 45 minutes. Price: $2.25 a pint, comparable to price of developer and hypo together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...Indirect taxes were slashed on a wide range of items. Most spectacular was a cut of about 2$ on a pint of beer, which, observed Amory, is "a fitting celebration perhaps of the achievements of an exhausting decade." Purchase tax on cars, TV sets and cosmetics is to fall from 60% to 50% ; on washing machines, refrigerators and vacuum cleaners it drops from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Releasing the Brakes | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

With a League average of 17 points, Harrington can vault into third place in the Ivy scoring race with a 35 point total. The pint-sized guard is not incapable of such an effort...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Downs to Lead Favored Yale Quintet Against Crimson in Season's Finale | 3/4/1959 | See Source »

...helped by the fact that table tennis is one of the few sports that make sense being heard and not seen. Medick discovered this in college (Western Reserve) when he learned that the queer tap-tapping in the recreation room was a game; learning the rules. Medick bet a pint of ice cream that he could score the noise without a mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ear on the Ball | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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