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Called "Sister" for short, the new champion is an aristocratic three-year-old whose bouffant hairdo is kept in place by a strategically located rubber band. At her kennel in Mahopac, N.Y., Sister is kept saturated in baby oil and hooded in Pliofilm. Her life is sunless and funless. Her diet features wheat germ and chopped beef, her home is carefully air-conditioned, and she gets ultraviolet light treatments. But sunshine? Never. Twice a day Sister exercises in an "outdoor" run -shingle-roofed, walled with Plexiglas and floored with specially selected gravel. Only when she is being prepared for show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Sister | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...size and shape, its instincts and intelligence, it was the nearest thing to man that has yet made the perilous voyage into space and returned safely. The occupant of the capsule was a three-year-old, 37-lb. chimpanzee, fired by the U.S. last week on a headlong trip through outer space's underbelly and recovered. The flight was part of the U.S.'s man-in-space program, Project Mercury. When it was over, the historic moment when man himself would speed into space seemed much closer-yet still agonizingly far away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Nearest Thing | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

...Allen's office spotted on a handy shelf a book called Touch Football.-A Los Angeles jury mulled it over for an hour and a half, decided that' toupee-topped Dennis Crosby, 26, one of the Old Groaner's four singing sons, fathered the illegitimate three-year-old daughter of Hollywood Divorcee Marilyn Scott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 6, 1961 | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

Greeting Mr. Sam later, three-year-old Caroline observed that "you haven't got a hair on your head." Replied Mr. Sam: he hoped Caroline would do as well with all her locks as he had done with no hair. Caroline seemed satisfied with that, and then sought out Lyndon Johnson to discover whether the master political craftsman knew how to make sand pies. Disappointingly, he didn't. One morning Sam Rayburn also tried his hand at fishing off the Palm Beach seawall with little Joe Kennedy, Bobby's son, caught eight fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President-Elect: Boundless & Endless | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

...abscessed tooth put Liz in the hospital. While she recuperated last week in California, her bright-eyed three-year-old daughter Liza Todd remained behind in London to keep up the side, dressed herself in Ptolemaic Merry Mites as if to prove that she might at least have played Cleopatra as a tot. Meanwhile with shooting at a dead stop, Lloyd's was faced with what will be the largest claim -at least $2,800,000-ever made against the insurers of a motion picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Shoot Only When Covered | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

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