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Word: chris (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Precocious. The streak has been going for nearly seven years. In 1961, a Los Angeles photographer spotted Craig and his younger brother Chris, then four and every bit as much of a freckled carrottop, and put them into commercials. Soon both boys were in demand as child actors. Craig has had child leads in Gunsmoke, Lassie and Run for Your Life, and in October he appeared in Star Trek. As actor and pianist, Craig has earned well over $200,000 so far, and he owns an apartment house in the Los Angeles suburb of Sherman Oaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: Freckles and Filigree | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

Defenseman Chris Gurry had his usual head-knocking night, but also managed to score once and set up two goals...

Author: By Peter D. Lennon, | Title: Icemen Trounce Northeastern, 8-4 | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

Harvard, healthy and anxious to start their season, will most likely look to its forwards for the win. Only Chris Gurry is returning from last year's defensive corps and so the Crimson is playing three new defensemen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icemen Face Northeastern In Season Opener Tonight | 12/5/1968 | See Source »

Harvard's defense is the only question mark at this point. Coach Cooney Weiland only has junior Chris Gurry returning from last year's corps. With the loss of Terry Flaman, McManama moved back to the blue line with Gurry, and Skip Freman joined sophomore Dave Jones on the second unit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sextet Clobbers St. Nick's, 13-2, In First Hockey Game of Season | 12/3/1968 | See Source »

...same kind of confusion hits several other pieces. Chris Hart's "Jumping John" is a nice little parody of the modern-sordid school of writing, but like James Dickson's "The Modigliani Face," it relies for its humor on the dubious assumption that any real-life trend will be funny if exaggerated enough. Now that may be a sure-fire key to effective political satire (e.g. exaggerate the horrors of war and people will get fed up with it), but it doesn't always make for a good laugh. Dickson, by plugging in tidbits of humor-in-microcosm ("Brackley...worked...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: The Lampoon | 12/2/1968 | See Source »

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