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...over, he had them all thinking about humor, and he said that was the best part of the job. He recalled a bank president who had never cracked a joke, a man rarely given to laughter. After the Kushner treatment, the executive did not exactly become a barrel of monkeys, but he was able to cut loose with the odd one-liner. One venom-tongued supervisor, accustomed to dressing down tardy employees, now has the habit of saying, "So glad you could make it for lunch." The message is still clear, but it is not so much a brick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Learning to Laugh | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

First of all, when they barrel over the Sagamore Bridge from Route 3 they'll probably head straight up they've made it to The Cape until they get to their exit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Trips | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

Pickens moves with cloak-and-dagger stealth once he decides which firm to attack. Only a few Mesa insiders like Financial Vice President David Batchelder, 35, know the target. To keep its identity secret, Pickens gives it a code name (Gulf was "Barrel Cactus," for a plant in Pickens' office), which he uses while accumulating the company's stock. Money for the purchases is funneled in chunks of up to $50 million to Broker Alan Greenberg at the Wall Street firm of Bear, Stearns, and to other securities houses. Pickens transfers the huge sums from numbered bank accounts around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Times for T. Boone Pickens | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...first two years, the league is pinning its latest hopes on the star power of Flutie, Boston College's miracle missile launcher and now New Jersey's , littlest General. But the U.S.F.L. started its third season last week long on pricey players, short on revenues and looking down the barrel of its own decision to take on the towering National Football League with a switch to a fall schedule in 1986. Even so, new U.S.F.L. Commissioner Harry Usher, fresh from his triumphs as second-in-command of last summer's Olympics, insists that "the state of the league has never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Flutie's Wing, and a Prayer | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...afternoon wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs for those Crimson runners who did compete. Senior MarkHenry, who has been Harvard's most dependable and succesful point scorer won the triple jump, but for the first time this season, he didn't place in the long jump...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Elis, Tigers Run Over Thinclads; Women Edged Out in Final Relay | 2/19/1985 | See Source »

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