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When the flag went down, you could hear rubber burn The Sting Ray had me going into the turn I hung a big shift and I got into high, And when I flew by the Sting Ray, I waved bye-bye . . . It may be doggerel, but it is music to the ears of Ford executives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Appeal to Youth | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

...catch you for arson, witchcraft, sodomy, soliciting, contempt, vagrancy. They can prove you without means of support, unborn or dead. They can bury you in unconsecrated ground. You have to fly very hard to keep in the sun." Beamish finally demoted him with the memorable words: "You write doggerel and have been interfering with Mrs. Stoat." (Mrs. Stoat was a flirtatious taxation official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Traveling Men | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

...Greatest." Some people think Cassius Clay talks too much. But Cassius just laughs, and keeps on talking. Sometimes he talks in doggerel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Dream | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

...Cassius Clay. True to his word, it was in the third that Clay's foe hit the hay. But the boastful young bard, although he slugs hard, must face Sonny Listen some time. And while he can't rhyme. Sonny's right is sublime-and each doggerel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 1, 1963 | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

Dreaming up doggerel for a 1912 house organ called the B.V.D.ealer, an anonymous poet unwittingly set up one of the catchiest slogans in U.S. advertising: "Next to Myself I Like B.V.D. Best." The slogan, along with sturdy lines of men's underwear and saucy injunctions such as "Now, Now Cool Off-Get Your B.V.D.s On!", made B.V.D.* an American byword and a titan of the trade. But by World War II, overextension, inefficient mills and changed buying habits had shrunk the onetime giant. Now, under different ownership, B.V.D. is headed up again. Since 1957 its plants have quadrupled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Results of Prudent Aggression | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

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