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...Seas series, Adventures in Paradise, ended in the early '60s, he turned down Marilyn Monroe's plea that he appear in her never finished film Something's Got to Give. After living in the Amazon, McKay wrote dozens of plays, including Sea Marks, and the well-received 1999 novel Toyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 3, 2001 | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...Austin Powers movie makes a star of Mini-Me actor Verne Toyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...former top-level diplomat had a similar remembrance: "Malenkov did not bother to talk with the guests. It seemed as though he resented just being there. You could not tell what sort of fellow he was. He did not drink too much, and he did not abstain-a calculating toyer with a glass. Always he wore that party uniform [a drab, high-collared tunic, once affected by Stalin], which went out long ago in Russia . . ." The diplomat paused. Then, spacing his words for emphasis, he continued: "I -would -hate -to -be -at -the -mercy -of -that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Number 2 1/2 | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...Over these bits of good news Generalissimo Chiang smacked his thin lips, enjoying tea with "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang. This gilded Chinese youth fell heir to the fabulous loot of his mighty War Lord sire, the late, great Chang Tso-lin, drinker of hot tigers' blood and toyer with hotter women. Last week the Young Marshal was still trying to make good, fooling around the Communist war zone in his shiny new Boeing plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Young Marshal's Escape | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

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