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According to David A. Gilbert, president of the Daily Herald, the spoolers had attempted an "April Fool's edition December" which subsequently backward...
Hamlin had one basic problem he didn't solve, however. Comedy involves the exposure of human follies. It works by undercutting. In the plot of a play, the fool is defeated (but not destroyed) by his own errors. But the actors can also get laughs from line to line with little changes of tone and double-takes. Ideally, these two levels of revelation are linked. In this production they often weren...
...agile, shifty" runner himself. Bird played some defense in 1964 at Kentucky, but none this year; he was too busy being the Southeastern Conference's second leading ground gainer (with 646 yds.). A little still went a long way with the scouts. "A sure tackier, hard to fool on fakes," goes one report. "As a matter of fact, he's even better on defense than on offense...
...Farago, issued a categorical denial: "The prince would not dream of selling the Leonardo." As for the prince, he was, as one to the manner born, off hunting in Austria. Does this mean that Ginevra del Bend will never leave Liechtenstein? Said a Liechtensteinian noble last week: "Eventually some fool may offer $10 million, and then...
...Thomson decided to become a farmer in Saskatchewan, but the bleak and lonely life sent him scurrying back east. "Goddam, what a fool I am," he berated himself. He turned to selling radios in desolate northern Ontario, then discovered that people heard only static. So he built his own radio station. When the Timmons, Ont., Citizen pressured him to drop a certain news program, Thomson angrily bought out the paper for $6,000. Inadvertently, he had started his publishing empire...