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...bogus Martha was elusive because she used only the most celebrated Martha Mitchell weapon-the telephone. At 10:30 a.m. last Tuesday, TIME Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angelo received a call from a woman who identified herself as "Martha Mitchell." The caller apparently was a wily impersonator. She claimed to be in Washington with John Mitchell and phoning from a booth. Airplane noises could be heard on the line as she spoke. Earlier she had phoned Washington Post Managing Editor Howard Simons, and later she would call Washington Star-News Editor Newbold Noyes. In a familiar Martha-like diatribe, she declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Will the Real Martha Mitchell Please Hang Up? | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

Telltale blunders, however, gave the caller away. Though the accent sounded Southern, the voice was too gravelly with whisky, and the speech too ungrammatical, for Martha. The impostor went on to confess: "I am half drunk-I do drink a little bit. Why shouldn't I drink a little bit?" Anyone who has received a call from Martha Mitchell knows that she consistently denies having downed a drop of alcohol before getting on the phone. The impersonator said she had attended the state dinner for Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev the night before (actually, Martha was at her Manhattan apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Will the Real Martha Mitchell Please Hang Up? | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

...ALWAYS tell how good a team is by the performance of its front wall. And with USU that protection is even more important, because the U.S. quarterback, while a crafty signal caller, just isn't much more than mediocre when it comes right down to natural ability. Without his line to shield him from outside pressure, he simply is not a championship quarterback...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Scrambling the Game Plan | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

Well, USU hasn't gone very far into the new season and its front wall is already showing signs of crumbling. The protective pocket that insulated the USU signal caller so effectively from the opposition in the past is being overrun, and Whittier, accustomed to sitting back in the cup of insulation thrown up by his underlings, is being blitzed to death. With the protection broken down, the U.S. leader is being forced out of the pocket, and he is scrambling like mad to avoid being cornered...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Scrambling the Game Plan | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...Borbon of Spain. A visitor to Hurok's office before the gala remarked that it was too bad that all the profits were going to the arts research library in Lincoln Center instead of to Sol himself. "But you can't take it with you," the caller observed. "I'm not planning to go anyplace," replied Hurok without pause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 4, 1973 | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

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