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Jim Dale is the Decathlon Man of the musical theater. In this show, he walks a tightrope, rides a unicycle and launches himself from a trampoline to a small balcony, besides singing and dancing. But dynamic versatility merely taps Dale's appeal. He is a born charmer with an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Circus Hoopla | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

Thus all the pleasing mummery in the courtroom, all our political insulation, indeed all our power, is designed to support a message: "Whichever side you're on, we are not on your side or your opponent's side; you must persuade us not that you've got...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: By and Large, We Succeed | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

But Harvard regained its lost momentum in the crowd-pleasing 100 yard dash, as junior Peter Nsiah and tri-captain Joe Salvo blazed to a one-two finish.

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Tracksters Muzzle Huskies | 4/16/1980 | See Source »

Under Editor in Chief Robert Manning, 60, who took the magazine's helm in 1966, the once retiring Atlantic has become more aggressive, topical and visually pleasing. A former Assistant Secretary of State, TIME senior editor and Sunday editor of the old New York Herald Tribune, Manning has also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: New Cash for an Old Bostonian | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

Tickner came to serious skating at an age when most coaches felt he was too old to reach world-class standards: during his freshman year in college. He had to go back to work on his compulsory figures, those painstaking loops and turns that judges squat to scrutinize like the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold Rush at Lake Placid | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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