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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worries about his weak left hook. Still, he is considering a pro career in the ring. Promises Papa: "If he did decide to get into it, he would have the best trainers in the world. And he wouldn't have to worry about getting a fair shake." No, sir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 28, 1975 | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

...Sir and William Penn. Another original Bicentennial play, but this one never even gets to America. It's about William Penn's problems in England, where he underwent a trial for his Quakerism. In the end, his father gives him Pennsylvania, where he will go to find religious freedom and live happily ever after. At Old West Church, 131 Cambridge St.in Boston. Tonight and Thurs., Fri., and Sat.nights through August at 8 p.m. Reservations necessary...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: THE STAGE | 7/18/1975 | See Source »

British Critic Sir Denis Brogan liked to tell about an incident that happened just after President Andrew Jackson died. A visitor attending his funeral asked one of Jackson's slaves whether he thought the general would go to heaven. The slave replied, "He will if he wants to." Brogan added the moral: General Jackson was and is a symbol of the typical American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Morning After the Fourth: Have We Kept Our Promise? | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

...spade-bearded Scottish actor; following a series of strokes; in King's Somborne, England. Gruff-voiced and massive (270 lbs.), Justice appeared in more than 40 films, among them Moby Dick, Les Misérables and The Guns of Navarone. He was best known as the irascible surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt in the British Doctor comedy series of the 1950s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 14, 1975 | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

...Panther begins with an intricate and extremely dexterous jewel robbery, a sequence that Edwards stages with great finesse. The Pink Panther is a priceless jewel, and Clouseau must find out what happened to it. His major suspect-who, needless to say, is probably innocent-is the suave cat burglar Sir Charles Litton (Christopher Plummer), a character amusingly and lovingly modeled on Gary Grant in Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief. Litton must track down the real culprits while Clouseau stalks him. There is little question of ever catching Litton, of course, but the unnatural disasters that Clouseau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Minkey Business | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

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