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Prodigies are seldom lovable, and Macaulay was no exception. As a boy he was "loudmouthed and conceited," with a visible "neglect of cleanliness." As an adult he was variously described as a "mean, whitey-looking man" and "an ugly, cross-made, splayfooted, shapeless little dumpling of a fellow." He had two qualities that make a human being a menace at any party-a phenomenal memory and inexhaustible energy. An exasperated hostess once grew so desperate that she switched the conversation to dolls, hoping to shut him up. Alas, Macaulay turned out to be an authority on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victorian Bust | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...there is a weakness on the Penn squad, it is at the guard spot. Beecroft and Whitey Varga are suspect ballhandlers, a full-court press Sanders employed in Philadelphia bothered the methodical Quakers in the waning moments of the game...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Cagers Face Quakers Tonight Crimson Title Hopes Are on the Line | 2/15/1974 | See Source »

Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford, two keystones in the last years of the New York Yankee dynasty, entered baseball's Hall of Fame together yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOSE DAMN YANKEES | 1/17/1974 | See Source »

...boys watched as Jennifer drowned. Later that same week, Ken Harvey, a 41-year-old white schoolteacher, and his family of 12 were burned out of their home in London's predominantly black area of Brixton by a gang of 20 black kids who had vowed "to get whitey...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee, | Title: To Be Young, British, And Black | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

...Today, Dunham's store grosses $110,000 a month, more than twice the national average, and his all-black staff of 120 keeps the place immaculate. "I tell them, 'Let's do better than the Man downtown,' " he says. "Any time you say 'beat Whitey,' they work harder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: The Burger That Conquered the Country | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

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