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...Disney's economy epics, the plaster castles are impeccably constructed and the faces of the principals (Peter McEnery and Susan Hampshire) are so nice that they make a theater feel like church. Anybody who sees any redeeming historical merit in this agreeable guff would believe that the River Shannon flows down the middle of Sunset Boulevard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lion in Marmalade | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

Lots of Sweat. There are a few spoilsports around the National League who insist that Perry's sudden prowess is due to another magic ingredient. "You want to bet $100 he doesn't throw a spitball?" challenges Cardinal Rightfielder Mike Shannon. The Giants, of course, deny it (though Perry slyly admits, "I do sweat a lot out there"). "He's a suspect to start with," says Farm Club Director Carl Hubbell. "Because he's having a helluva year, they all complain that he's got to be doing something funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Magic on the Mound | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...line that flies across the Atlantic, TWA loaded other airlines with its strandees-a move that added $1,000,000 a day to the nation's balance-of-payments deficit. Even so, some 1,500 Americans were still looking for a way home last week, including 250 at Shannon, Ireland, and about 400 in London, where a party of Massachusetts schoolteachers bedded down on airport couches. The strain in Spain was mainly to get aboard Iberia Airlines planes from Madrid to New York. Last week police quelled one fracas in which 19 irate tourists threatened to slug counter attendants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Back to Work Through an Open Gate | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

First Lieut. Charles Williams, 32, clutched his green beret until his knuckles whitened as he stood tautly at Lyndon Johnson's side. Nearby stood his wife, Anita; three sons, Daniel, 12, Terence, 9, and James, 7; and his daughter, Shannon, 2½, who from time to time glanced down with obvious pride at her fluffy blue dress and party shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: A Patriot's Gift | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...most complete pitcher in the game today, or any other day. "No man has the assortment of pitches Juan has," says Giants Manager Herman Franks -and there is a consensus about that. "Koufax has two pitches-a fastball and a curve," says St. Louis Outfielder Mike Shannon. "They're the two best pitches in the league. But Marichal has more. He has four or five-and he can control them all." Shannon hasn't seen the half of it: Juan has 13 pitches (see diagram), and one of the keys to his success is that he exhibits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Dandy Dominican | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

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