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Crimson number one man Mike Desaulniers started the onslaught by taking three quick games from cadet Bob Davis. Using a baffling mixture of cross-court and rail shots, the all-world junior from Dunster House sent the "doughboy" scurrying to the showers early on the short end of a 15-8, 15-8, 15-8 decision...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Racquetmen Outgun Army, 9-0 | 12/9/1978 | See Source »

...there is some action. The F.H. contingent must swing around a quarter turn. The result is hectic. Under the Defend the Democratic Rights of Oppressed Nationalities banner stands a short and stumpy man. A faded version of the Pillsbury Doughboy dressed in gray cap, jacked and pants, he stomps his feet in cadence with the archings of his eyebrows and the mechanical chomp of his tight-lipped mouth...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: Under A Glumping Sky | 2/4/1975 | See Source »

...seated in a garage containing one car, one speedboat and two motorcycles. Another good credit risk boasts of seven cars and two motorcycles in his family. Things share equal billing with people in these photographs. Things also seem to be equally demanding. "I bought the Doughboy pool for David and the kids, and now no one wants to take the responsibility for cleaning it," one father remarks mournfully as he scoops debris from the large plastic tank. Neatness counts. A youth, balancing in the boughs of a scrawny tree, is picking dead leaves. "My dad thinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUBURBIA: The Home That Jack Built | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

...Tapped Message. Joe is a World War I doughboy who gets blown to bits by a shell. His arms, legs and face gone, Joe is kept alive as an experimental curiosity, locked in a hospital closet. One of the Army surgeons states confidently that Joe can feel nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Basket Case | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

...Hudson, and Burnett never felt the need for the creative flash of Manhattan. "Ideas don't know where they are born," he said. His own ideas were based on keen appraisals of consumer wants and were often disarmingly wrapped in homilies. His agency created the Pillsbury Doughboy, as well as the Marlboro Man, the Jolly Green Giant, Star-Kist's Charlie the Tuna, Maytag's dependability campaigns, and the slogans "You're in good hands with Allstate," "When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer," and "Fly the friendly skies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Leo the Lion | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

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