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Idol Apparent. Last week, peering at the world through the traces of an elegant shiner picked up in the Cambridge fight, Kris signed a contract with Top Rank, J. Arthur Rank's British recording firm (he is also dickering with J. Arthur's calamitously titled U.S. subsidiary, Rank Records), and set off with a earful of fellow Oxonians to tour Switzerland on the first proceeds. The young idol-apparent, renamed Kris Carson by Promoter Lincoln, is dead serious about making a success as a singer, chiefly because he wants enough money to be able to support himself while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Old Oxonian Blues | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...pitching staff includes right handers Dave Brigham, Herb Shiner, John Stimpson, Collins, Bill Meehan, and southpaws Don Hoffman and Steve Rhoades. Brigham and Hoffman started in the only two freshman games to date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collins Scheduled to Pitch Against M.I.T. as Yardlings Seek Second Win | 4/26/1955 | See Source »

...happening, he slapped my face and hit me." Berwyn's story: "He tried to shoot me. He kicked me in the groin. In trying to restrain him, I accidentally poked him in the eye." Of one thing there was no doubt: Octogenarian Macfadden sported a fancy purple shiner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 18, 1954 | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...between the visits of various foreign gentlemen whom James, a friendly person, often put up and interviewed. One such fellow arising early on a morning found a bootblack industriously shining his shoes, left outside in the corridor. The visitor attempted to give him a quarter. The shoe-shiner was James, who calmly continued...

Author: By David W. Cudhea, | Title: Dana-Palmer House | 12/10/1952 | See Source »

Among the swank set at Deauville, France there were two versions as to how Aly Khan picked up the massive shiner on his right eye. Popular version: dining at a restaurant without his usual companion of late, Cinemactress Joan Fontaine, he let his eye rove too obviously toward a nearby beauty whose husband's aim was right on target. Aly's story: "My physical instructor hit me accidentally with his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Social Graces | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

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