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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arcadia Revisited | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

...believe that "Good News, Bad News" jokes derived from a group game we called "Yay! Boo!" which was played at high school and college parties in the '40s and '50s. For example: "This is your social chairman speaking. Tonight we have invited some ladies over to entertain us (Yay!). However, they will be completely dressed (Boo!)... in cellophane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1972 | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...With Harrison, you felt that everything you said would get back to him. He accused ballplayers of bringing their roommates to games to boo him. And if you told him something privately, he would throw it back at you in a team meeting," the player said...

Author: By Douglas E. Schoen, | Title: Players Detail Basketball Problems | 4/13/1972 | See Source »

...want to see the day when a whole generation of fans exists which will sit in a stadium and boo a home team for sitting on a four-point lead and not covering the spread," he said...

Author: By E.j. Dionne, | Title: Rozelle: NFL Used Lie Detector | 1/4/1972 | See Source »

Last week Karras did his show in a Santa Clans costume, but his tone was still closer to Scrooge. In a lefthanded defense of spectators who boo pro football teams, he said: "If guys are dumb enough to fork over $7 to see this fiasco, then let 'em boo." Karras, who was suspended from football for the 1963 season for betting on the games, still insists that the real reason he was dismissed by the Lions was that "I've always been critical of the Lions' front office. They do a lousy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Lion at Large | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

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