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...atmosphere during the game would be quite different from the one surrounding the preceding pleasantries. "We are polite off the field but deadly serious on it," Bodgin warned. "We will offer our opponent a drink after the game, if he is still alive," Crisp added, with his Eton choirboy's grin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Notches Oxford on Polo Field | 10/4/1977 | See Source »

...newlyweds having an easy, relaxed time with their friends. That was essentially the case. A year ago, when he last played Los Angeles, he was drinking and down enough to be thoroughly believable as he sang his own Help Me Make It Through the Night. Now, sober as a choirboy (he has been on the wagon since last September), he held Rita's hand, whispered to her and blended his deep, friendly baritone with her voice of amber and honey. The capacity crowd of 3,700 roared back cheers and bravos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Grooving with Kris and Rita | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...seasons since the rookie quarterback with the choirboy face took the snap from center in the Minnesota Vikings' first National Football League game, he has surpassed all others in passing yardage (41,798), touchdowns (308), completions (3,186). Along the way to achieving those records, Tarkenton put a new word-scramble-into the vocabulary of football and marked the game forever with his indelible style. This coming Sunday, he will try for the third time to join the lodge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A FAILURE? LORD NO!' | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...political victory in 1956, when he challenged Republican Senator Herman Welker, a supporter of Joe McCarthy. Though Idaho is a conservative state in which Republicans outnumber Democrats, Church scored an upset victory. Arriving on Capitol Hill at 32, with the cherubic face and beatific smile of a choirboy, he was often mistaken for a Senate page. His earnest oratory won him the sobriquet of "Senator Sunday School." He proved to be industrious, competent and meticulously attentive to Idaho's interests. He was returned three times to the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Senator Sunday School's Slow Start | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...breasts are fondled and pummeled, and one or two actors lose their trousers, but the evening's focus is on a pair of "the Rubens, made of sensitized Fablon as used on Apollo space missions." The breastworks are delivered to one Connie Wicksteed, who looks so like a choirboy that the errant local curate has fallen in love with her. Connie lives in the genteel resort town of Hove with her brother Arthur, a G.P. specializing in lechery, his wife Muriel, a lady endowed with Jane Russell proportions, and a cleaning woman who is a victim of overexposure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: False Premises | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

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