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Westmoreland's working uniform used to be fatigues that were faded with wear but always had perfect, knife-edge creases. Thus it is something of a shock to notice, as he waves a guest into his small carriage house on Prices Alley in the historic old section of Charleston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: Civilian Westmoreland | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

MOST ENGAGING CHARACTERIZATION: Peter Falk's rumpled, resourceful Columbo (NBC), which freshened the overworked cop-and-crime formula.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Year's Most | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

Understanding the Irish to the satisfaction of the Irish was no mean feat for a relatively unknown English politician who had spent virtually his entire career in the back corridors of parliamentary life. A former Scots Guards officer, Whitelaw was raised on his grandfather's estate in Scotland, sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Miracle Worker | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

The President could hardly have found a successor with greater contrast to the elegant Richardson. A hefty, rumpled man who chaws tobacco and plays the washtub fiddle for relaxation, Saxbe grew up on a farm near Mechanicsberg in southwestern Ohio, where he still maintains a home and a herd of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: Handing the Ball to Bill Saxbe | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

Lowry spent much of the '30s and early '40s following Aiken to America or visiting friends clustered in quiet, inexpensive towns in Spain and Mexico. He was by most accounts great, though trying, company. Aiken's wife constantly feared that he would absentmindedly set fire to his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Misadventurer | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

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