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When copies were brought to the Yale Club, the guard thought it a gag and refused to give them out. But residents of the Harvard Club eagerly gobbled up copies. Crimeds also placed copies at other crucial points around the city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editors Give Paper to N.Y., Truman | 12/5/1953 | See Source »

...public following was showing its sympathies, and the government was sorry that it had ever decided to try the old man publicly. Mossadegh vowed to take a whole month in his rebuttal; wearily the court decided to sit once a day instead of twice. In the end, went the gag around Teheran, the five military judges will throw themselves on the mercy of the defendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Mooooo! | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...decided to stake his whole profit on promotion, turned himself into the Madman. His billboards, with their mad legends ("I wanna give them away, but Mrs. Muntz won't let me. She's crazy.") and his singing commercials made his name a California gag. Red Skelton, Bing Crosby and others kidded his commercials, the University of Southern California rooting section spelled out his name at halftime, and soldiers at Santa Ana Camp marched into chow singing "MUNTZ, that's Muntz." And his gross jumped from $150,000 to $1,000,000 a month. Dissatisfied with car design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Dig That Crazy Man | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...Just shows you how serious some folks can get over a couple of musicians who know a gag when they fall over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Parodies Pay | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...heavy dose of the classics. No matter how dull a boy is, he may stay on until he is 16, but C.H. has rarely been bothered by dull boys. The boys live the old Spartan life: they sleep on boards covered only by a thin mattress, eat cold gag (cold meat), crug and flab (bread & butter), kiff (tea), slosh (boiled rice) and taff (potatoes). Their top Grecian still has the privilege of delivering a special address to each new British sovereign, and each year the whole school marches to the residence of the Lord Mayor to receive for each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Blues | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

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