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Marriage Revealed. Ted Williams, 49, former Boston Red Sox star and baseball's last .400 hitter (.406 in 1941); and Dolores Wettach, 32, a registered nurse and Miss Vermont of 1957; he for the third time, she for the first time; last fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 21, 1968 | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

Some leaders of the new wave: ∙DOLORES WETTACH is lush, Lorenesque, and doubly foreign (her father is Swiss, her mother Swedish); she moved at the age of five from Switzerland to Flushing, N.Y., where her father set up a mink ranch. Now about 24 ("You learn not to be too exact"), Dolores was elected Miss Vermont in the 1956 Miss Universe contest, graduated in 1957 from the University of Vermont with a B.S. in nursing. While she was working as a nurse at Manhattan's Doctors Hospital, a sharp-eyed photographer saw beyond her heavy oxfords, asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Bones Have Names | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

Died. Carl Adrian Wettach, 79, tragicomic, Swiss-born circus clown known as "Crock," who elevated pantomime to an art by playing a tiny fiddle with cotton gloves, moving a piano to a stool rather than stool to piano, shrugged off the world's perplexities with his famed exclamations, "Pourquoi?" (why?) and "Sans blague?" (no kidding?); of a heart attack; in Imperia, Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 27, 1959 | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...audience of 3,000 found it hard to believe that The Great Grock would ever give up the limelight and the sawdust, but the fact was that at 74, Europe's greatest clown was tired. As Adrian Wettach, the son of a Swiss watchmaker, he ran away from home at 14 to try his luck in greasepaint. For 60 years he played in circuses and music halls across the length and breadth of Europe and England. On a continent where clowns are universally rated as the top act in any circus, Grock was acclaimed as the greatest of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Great Grock | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...Ulin, A. A. '46, Eliot D-42 TRO 4711 V Vail, D. J. '46, Winthrop G-33 TRO 6667 W Ward, J. M. Leverett B-42 KIR 2107 Weinman, I. L. '46, Leverett I-33 KIR 9707 Weinstein, L. O. '43, Winthrop F-31 KIR 8618 Wettach, R. H. '46, Eliot B-53 TRO 8224 Whiting, F. S. '46, Lowell H-11 TRO 9687 Wilson, G. L. '45, Leverett A-33 TRO 4222 Weis, L. W. '44, Dunster C-23 ELI 1097 Wind, L. C. '45, Lowell C-34 KIR 2193 Winthrop, R. '46, Eliot D-23 TRO 4711 Woodruff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Telephone Supplement | 3/31/1943 | See Source »

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