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...that's where DiMaggio has gone. Joe looks as cool at 74 as he used to in center field. But the Yankee Clipper knows the value of celebrity and the attraction of having the proof in writing. In the greatest reversal since Serutan, DiMaggio brought a baseball to a White House dinner last year, when Mikhail Gorbachev was visiting President Reagan, and acquired their autographs for free. "Reagan's is very precise," says DiMaggio, who once had to fight a souvenir collector at his bank to retrieve a check made out by Joe and endorsed by his then wife Marilyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Assembly Line of Dreams | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...Oldest One. Like its sponsors, Geritol ("Tired blood") and Serutan ("For regularity after 35"), the Amateur Hour is part of broadcasting's Medicare generation. The oldest show on the air, it has been producing the tall corn since 1934, before most Americans now living were born. The late Major Bowes launched it on radio, and his top aide, Ted Mack, brought it to television in 1948. It is still the top-rated show in its time slot (5:30 p.m., E.D.T.), pulling 12,700,000 viewers a week. Last week, in a Methuselan milestone, its "wheel of fortune" went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: For Whom the Gong Tolls | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

Nowhere & Serutan. The best parts of Pala-and reading about Pala-constitute an intellectual teaser in the best Huvley tradition. It is when Huxley is undertaking to describe the spiritual Himalayas of his fictional Utopias that his prose, always as smooth as yak butter, begins to smell like the same spread. To cut some of the butter, Huxley even provides a snake in his paradise, a local fascist princeling who advocates things like fast cars, Progress, Values, Oil and True Spirituality. In the end, he manages to organize a revolution against Pala's benevolent philosopher rulers, and "the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Erewhonsville | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

Huxley's Pala is at least as explorable as Herman Melville's Typee and more believable than Samuel Butler's Erewhon. But a novelist who writes about erewhon goes against his Serutan. which, as all the world knows, is nature's spelled backwards. Pie in the sky, however deep dish. is never as fascinating as the hard crust of the satirist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Erewhonsville | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

...presumably go on being sultry, cute and stylish for decades to come. But if she should ever lose her nightclub following, her energetic, silver-haired mother may point to new possibilities; at 66, Mrs. Kirk is a successful model impersonating happy, middle-aged matrons of the Serutan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: In Her Fashion | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

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