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...that boyish face, blond hair and blue eyes, and the big frame, well over 6 feet, lanky with a little pot puffing up from too many gravied luncheons and dinners. But mainly he is arms and legs that might suddenly come unstrung one minute and collapse like an unravelable pretzel. With your eyes closed, the voice might be a Kennedy's-any of them, John or Robert or Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Great Tunney-Brown Fight | 6/15/1970 | See Source »

...kind of flowering dullness about her, a boredom in rosy bloom-she is about as seductive as the average waitress at a teahouse." At times, she can be downright mean. Melina Mercouri, she reported, "had wall-to-wall hips, an ear-to-ear mouth, and more teeth than a pretzel has salt." Occasionally, the sarcasm cuts closer to home. Before she married Douglas Cramer, who is now head of TV production at Paramount, in 1966, Joyce described him in her column as "the kind of man who takes traveler's checks to Santa Barbara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnists: Return of the Gossip | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

Nathan looked for a long silent time into Mirna's eyes. Then he too picked up a pretzel...

Author: By William L. Ripley, | Title: Choosing Fruit | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

...started his career as filmdom's comic guy-next-door. By the late '40s, he was writing and directing his own movies; he tried TV with The Dennis O'Keefe Show in 1959 and made his Broadway debut in 1964's Never Live Over a Pretzel Factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 13, 1968 | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

EXERCISE: Put your right hoof in your right cuff, bend your elbow behind your ear, take a snort and sneeze. The consequent sensation will parallel the pretzel-like contortion which most of us have sustained all year...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: 1968 Descends Upon My Head | 7/1/1968 | See Source »

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