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...returned to the drawing room to answer the telephone. "Wilhelm, it's Josh from Stanford. Did you get my missive old chum?" said a voice on the other end of the phone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clip and Save: Excerpts From the Upcoming Lampoon-Chaparral Collaboration | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

...receive a letter from you, old chum," I replied and began scanning the paper quickly. It read as follows "blah blah blah blah, blah, blah." But my eyes lit up when I came to the part that said "I heard you didn't massage enough people's buttocks to become president. Sounds like a shame. I have a great idea for staging a coup to get rid of Cohen, though. If you'd like to hear about it, give me a call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clip and Save: Excerpts From the Upcoming Lampoon-Chaparral Collaboration | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

...band. Chester Triplett, an oral surgeon from nearby Naples, took over the skins. Tom Werth, a librarian, took a tenor sax, as did Bill Russell, a retired railroad dispatcher. Pam Dane, a senior in high school, threw in with the geezers on alto sax, as did Pam's chum Diana Macumber, who blows a baritone saxophone. Corbin Wyant, publisher of the Naples Daily News, contributes on trombone, along with Jim Kalvin, a marina owner, Michael Isabella, an embroidery manufacturer, and Scott Wise, a salesman. Two other salesmen, Roger Park and Steve Chamberlain, address their chops to trumpets, in the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: From Molars to Moonglow | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...full of good jazz played by such stalwarts as Herbie Hancock, Billy Higgins and Wayne Shorter). He is pleased to swap solos and memories with an old-flame vocalist (the wondrous Lonette McKee) whose love still shines in her eyes. He swears off alcohol and becomes an odd-couple chum of Francis' daughter's; he even attends the girl's birthday party with Francis' parents in Normandy. Still, Turner will always be a foreigner everywhere but inside his music. Paris may be a "very pretty town," but "happiness is a warm, wet Rico reed." The man has to go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blue Notes Over Paris 'round Midnight | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...Jack Brotherhood to deduce his whereabouts. There is a false trail that seems to lead to Scotland; in fact, Pym is holed up as Mr. Canterbury in a Devon boardinghouse. He is fairly sure that his superiors know he has passed secrets to a Communist agent, an old school chum. But Magnus is not trying to escape; he is only buying time to write his story so that his family and friends will know the truth. In addition, Rickie Pym has just died, his corpse bobbing in a tub of ice water until funeral expenses can be scraped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Tale of the Acorn and the Tree a Perfect Spy | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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