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Next up, Bill Boley spoke on general comedy writing. He recommended a thesaurus, insult books, comic strips as helpers, then put a forefinger to his temple and said, "You're going to need a little bit up here." He recommended writing the punch line first and then fitting a story around it. If he is not getting laughs, he has his dummy say, "Hey, don't complain to me. You're doing all the talking." Moreover, "that line has got me out of a corner many times." Directly, Bill Boley demonstrated what he could do with his voice...
Funnyman Flip Wilson might just be the biggest thing to hit Boley, Okla. (pop. 500) since the dust storms of the 1930s. When the town adopted the TV comedian as its honorary police chief last February, Wilson promised to contribute $10,000 for a new swimming pool. Last week he came to deliver. "We've got a $5,000 check for a police car," proclaimed Wilson during festivities for the town's 70th anniversary, "and now we're going to start working on $22,000 for a fire truck." Great, but what about the pool? "He wanted...
...Crimson, one of the veterans is Doug Hawkins, a 6 ft. 5 in. center, who last year averaged over 17, points per game. Starting with Hawkins will be sophomore Bill Warren (6 ft., 5 in.) and Junior Richard Anderson (6 ft., 3 in.) at the forwards and seniors Ben Boley (5 ft., 9 in.) and Henry Pearsall (6 ft.) at the guards...
Leave of Absence. In Keosauqua, la., County Jail Prisoner David Boley sawed his way to freedom, returned two days later with his brother, who confirmed the story that he had just gone off for a little fishing...
...Alfred Boley, counterman of the Meredith roadhouse where he claimed serving Gardiner and a shorter companion on January 28, examined battery rosters of the 97th New Hampshire National Guard, in an unsuccessful effort to identify the second man who called the employee "an old Leyte buddy...