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...London." The show won't be quite as racy as 1963's "Elizabeth Taylor in London," but Lucy swings well enough herself in such gear locations as Carnaby Street and Belgravia. In one sequence shot on the Thames, she swung so much that she capsized a rowboat and wound up sputtering in the chilly river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 3, 1966 | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

...have to: Drake retreated first. In a panic he abandoned a key position-and then hid in a cellar, where he fell asleep on a storage bin. After he woke up, Drake took his first and last decisive action. He strode to the riverbank, jumped into a rowboat, and was last seen shinnying shamelessly aboard a merchantman moored near the fort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mad Dogs & Englishmen | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

...cover is a photograph of General Maxwell Green, portrayed by Lampoon janitor Elmer Green, and a Vietnamese god riding in a rowboat searching for Saigon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Lampoon' Takes 'Time' to Parody; Humor Substituted for News Weekly | 4/27/1965 | See Source »

WITH her engines grinding at a rowboat's pace and her crew peering anxiously at debris in the water, the U.S. destroyer Boyd slipped in toward Japanese-held Nauru Island on the morning of Dec. 8, 1943. A U.S. fighter pilot had been- shot down within point-blank range of the island shore batteries, and the Boyd was bent on rescuing him. Suddenly, two 6-in. shells crashed into the forward .engine room, destroying half of the ship's power. Shellburst jets of water blossomed everywhere. The Boyd's skipper, Lieut. Commander Ulysses Simpson Grant Sharp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE IMPERTURBABLE ADMIRAL | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...Flipper (actually a girl dolphin named Susie) who saves the day, easily proving the most indomitable anthropomorphic movie hero since Rin Tin Tin. Flipper sings, squeals, dances, tows a disabled rowboat through a choppy sea, finally defeats the villains in single-snouted combat, and nearly dies of a knife wound before surgery pulls him through. Anyone who finds such exploits hard to swallow is either a lot more than twelve years old or just a jaded landlubber who can't appreciate a picture with a porpoise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Boy & His Dolphin | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

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