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...Garden, where the Terriers have lost but thrice in their last 21 starts, and where tonight, as befits the 25th Beanpot final, Harvard and B.U. loyalties will be compared to the tune of Dum, Dum, Dum...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Harvard-B.U.: No Love Lost | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...spontaneous combustion," Comden says of their composition. Green revealed a little more of the reworking that went into songs that play effortlessly now. "Sometimes you have a great tune. Lenny had this theme: da da dee, da da dum, -- Green picks the tune out on his chair--"and for a long time it was known in New York living rooms, very much to our embarrassment, as da da dee, da da dum. And then we found the phrase: 'Just in time...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Old Tunes | 9/28/1976 | See Source »

...prime example. Wilson was for it when he was Prime Minister in 1969, then vigorously opposed it two years later when he was out of office and polls showed Market membership to be unpopular, then reversed himself again in 1975. But his deft handling that year of the referents dum ratifying Market membership ended a long, divisive domestic debate on Britain's link to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Man for a Season of Decline | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

Thank you for reminding us that our presidential choice is not restricted to Dum-Dum and Tweedledum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 5, 1976 | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

...page, he has occasionally defended the President wittily and cogently, and has sometimes even criticized the White House (especially for bugging his telephone when he was in residence). More often, he has nitpicked the testimony of Richard Nixon's accusers or shot at them with dum dum bullets. Last week he went stalking after Leon Jaworski's "Special Persecution Force" and the "reign of terror" it is supposedly carrying out in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRITIQUE: Innuendo by Question Mark | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

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