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In the cold dark before winter dawn, by the TV screen's eerie blue glare, the show's rumpled star looks like an insomniac alchemist. With spectacles sliding down his nose, he brews electrons, protons and mesons while evoking Newton, Faraday, Planck, Einstein and Heisenberg. To watch NBC...
John Betjeman, 52, is a gentle, witty, rumpled Englishman who has been called "the greatest bad poet now living." It would be in character if he agreed with that estimate, although he can be called "bad" only in the sense that his rhymes sometimes jingle like a song writer'...
Iowa: Democratic Incumbent Herschel Loveless' corn-belt syntax and his rumpled common-man appeal, plus rural discontent with Ezra Taft Benson, all combined to give Loveless the nod over Republican William G. Murray, whose polished professorial phrases were largely wasted on Iowa ears.
who stomped on tradition by opening the New York Philharmonic's first Thursday "preview" concerts with a clutch of jokes and song snatches in a quavering baritone (TIME, Oct. 13), stomped again at the season's second Thursday. On stage at Carnegie Hall trooped the symphony's...
Few first-nighters recognized him, but the rumpled character caught in the crush at last week's opening of Walter and Jean Kerr's musicomedy Goldilocks (see THEATER) had one of the most important parts in the show: he was the moneyman. Roger Lacey Stevens, 48, a balding...