Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good feature, had routed the story over its transcontinental B-Wire, a teletype hook-up that reaches newspapers and radio stations all the way to Los Angeles. More than 100 papers and radio stations used the story. Some played it straight, 'HARVARD SEEN DRAFT SOURCE,' some as a gag, 'MOM WANTS SIMPERING HARVARDS IN SERVICE.' Public relation to the "Radcliffe Mother" was quick and active...
...best gag in this London film is one not entirely in context: a servant lastly striking the brass gong is told "Take it easy. You're not introducing a picture, you know...
...gag, said the country's gagwriters, but a serious vote for the "ten top laugh provokers of the year." Among the winners: Vice President Alben W. Berkley (public life); Jimmy Durante (TV); Ethel (Call Me Madam) Merman (stage); S. J. (Swiss Family Perelman) Perelman (literature); and, in the field of business, bumptious Manhattan Saloonkeeper Bernard ("Toots") Shor...
Just for a laugh, one day last month, the University of Chicago's student paper, the Maroon, put out a gag issue with the banner headline: HUTCHINS OUT! A few days later, Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins bumped into the Maroon's editor on the street. "You know," said he, "after that issue, no one will believe it when I really do leave...
...away from them. The titles told most of the story, and little of it was new, though much of it could stand retelling: The God That Failed, by half a dozen celebrities who had swallowed the Marxist hook but didn't have the wit to gag until they got to the sinker; General Walter Bedell Smith's saga of ambassadorial frustration, My Three Years in Moscow; General Frank Howley's account of day-to-day business with the Russians, Berlin Command; Vladimir Petrov's My Retreat from Russia; ex-Leftist James Burnham's The Coming...