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...leave something to be desired; but as a lesson in prophetic hindsight, McCall's offered a sample of poems written by entertainers when they were too young to know better. From a twelve-year-old Elizabeth Taylor: "Loving you,/ Loving you,/ Could be such heavenly bliss..." Joan Crawford, who became an expert at playing distraught ladies, offered this line at age 16: "Where are you?/ My heart cries out in agony..." At eleven, Bob Hope began, "I dreamed I was a circus clown./ I wore a funny suit." In his dream, Hope was caught by a lion. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 27, 1972 | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

...Winthrop-Mather game, a fourth-quarter fumble grabbed by Winthrop started the drive that was to end in the game's only score. Seniors Barry Murphy, John Crawford, and Ted Killian led the squad down field, and a one-hard keeper by quarterback Rob Mckee brought the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Squads To Meet Yale Intramural Teams | 11/17/1972 | See Source »

Nixon took New Mexico's four electoral votes with 64 per cent of the popular total and his coattails helped Peter Domenici become the first Republican Senator from the state since 1928. Domenici beat Democrat Jack Daniels, known locally at the "Broderick Crawford of New Mexico politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How the People Voted Throughout the Country | 11/8/1972 | See Source »

...another bit, Ernestine complains to Joan Crawford that she was robbed of a dime by a Pepsi-Cola machine. "I want it back, all ten cents of it," she informs Crawford, a highly publicized member of Pepsi's board of directors. Unless she gets it, Ernestine promises, Pepsi's phones will be ripped out a six-pack at a time. "You don't understand," she tells anyone who disputes her authority. "This is the telephone company. We are not subject to city, state, or federal legislation. We are omnipotent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hooked into Lily | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

Texas attorney general Crawford C. Martin, filing one of the 16 briefs requesting the rehearings, said the Court's anti-execution ruling "constitutes a severe blow to the American jury system." He went on to say that the ruling forces the legislators to decide whether or not to punish by execution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High Court May Hear Death Cases | 7/25/1972 | See Source »

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