Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there more to love on Lucy than there used to be? No, Actress Lucille Ball, 65, still boasts the same trim figure she had when she first came to Hollywood as a Goldwyn Girl in 1934. But to impersonate Singer Sophie Tucker on Bob Hope's All-Star Tribute to Vaudeville (NBC, March 25), Ball donned a special "fat suit." "I always admired Sophie's elegant arrogance," says Ball, who carefully practiced Tucker's mannerisms and purposeful strut across the stage. But Lucy could not master Sophie's sweeping bow. "When you take a fast...
...Yaqub-Khan, 56, a trim, ascetic retired lieutenant general in the Pakistan army and its former chief of staff. Familiar with battle scenes, he was twice captured while serving with the British Indian army in World War II-and escaped both times. He is a four-goal international polo player, and a formidable linguist, fluent in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Urdu...
There are no bay trees, green or otherwise, in Alaska, however, and last spring's Pulitzer gold-medal winner for public service, Anchorage's Daily News (TIME, May 17), is having a long dark winter. To reduce expenses, the paper has had to trim its editorial staff from 21 to twelve. Two of the three reporters whose Pulitzer-winning articles revealed the stranglehold that the Teamsters have gained on Alaskan labor have left for better jobs, and the morning Daily News' circulation of 11,600 has shrunk to 7,580. But Publisher Katherine Fanning, 49, who with...
...managers for IBM, some analysts wonder whether the $280 offer will actually persuade many institutions to sell. Still, the offer strikes a balance. It allows the faithful to stay committed to IBM. And it permits skeptics who wonder whether the company's premier growth days are over to trim holdings quietly without sending tremors through Wall Street...
MacLaine's touring schedule keeps her from worrying too much. It also keeps her away from New York two weeks out of three, and parted from Daily News Columnist Pete Hamill, 41, the man in her life for the past five years. While at home she stays trim with a regimen of exercise and yoga and a low-sugar diet. On the road her style is more inner-city Holiday Inn than posh hotel. "They're like motels without cars-you can go down the hall and get a bucket of ice," she figures. "It's also...