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...became a San Diego TV host almost a half-century ago. "I wasn't a comedian or a singer or a dancer," he says. "I didn't have any of the abilities you need to succeed in this business." It wasn't until 1967, when he became second banana on Joey Bishop's late-night ABC show, that the Rat Packer told Philbin he chose him for his special talent. "I said, 'What is it?'" Philbin recalls. "I was on pins and needles. He said, 'You! You are a great listener!' Which was not the answer I was hoping...
...options too. V8 V-Fusion is a new drink that packs a full serving of both fruit and vegetables into a little bottle. It's 100% juice and doesn't have added sugar. It may seem odd to see a tomato juice brand offering fruity flavors like Strawberry Banana, Peach Mango and Tropical Orange, but it's a nutritious alternative to soda. Other options, if you're a Jamba Juice-fan, are Bolthouse Farms' new drinks, like C-Boost, a tropical fruit smoothie. And for those who have acquired a taste for Pom's pomegranate juice, Odwalla has three...
...garbage bag filled with rotten bananas came hurtling down the Weld hallway my freshman year in the grand finale to what I affectionately call “The Great Banana War.” I ducked, and thus ended the weeklong battle: from fresh bananas being hidden in the bed to a physical struggle for control of the banana bag, from the concealment of the bananas in a package as camouflage to a brief “water-being-poured-down-our-door” episode, and the much-maligned campaign, in which the rotten-banana-smeared cardboard left under...
...sure my parents are wondering why they didn’t just send me to a supermarket for four years if all I needed to stimulate by brain was some bizarre banana enterprise. But at Harvard, we don’t just play with our food. We do it critically, applying whatever excess brain power our tutorials leave us to determine the best way to smear rancid fruit onto...
When that bag of bananas just barely missed my head freshman year, I thought, “Why?” But then I immediately started to determine the most effective method of banana retrieval, repossession, and possible surrender. Because even when you’re being attacked by fruit, you cannot stop thinking...