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...promoters, do not contain sufficient human interest to fill all the columns of the numerous pages Boston papers apparently feel must be devoted to sports. As a result, every last drop of blood must be squeezed out of the personalities in whom there is greater interest, and every rumor, gag, and warmed-over story told in bars and clubs finds its way into print...

Author: By Jrwin M. Horowitz, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 12/6/1946 | See Source »

...Hope Corp. was no gag. It was part of a three-way corporate parlay by which Bob Hope expects to solve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hope, Inc. | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...Manhattan admen have a corner on the national advertising that goes to college magazines. To Harvardmen Madison Sayles and W. B. Bradbury the most depressing thing about their business is not the tired jokes they encounter among their ads. It is the visits of shameless radio gag writers who buy up old copies as a source of swipeable humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Yes, We Are Collegiate | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

That Man Again. In Minneapolis, University of Minnesota students, sick of the G.I. gag "Kilroy was here," staged a mock burial, inscribed on the tombstone: "Kilroy is here." In Caldwell, N.J., National Bank officials put up a neon sign over the entrance to the safe-deposit vault. The sign: "Kilroy was here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 11, 1946 | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Nuclear Knowledge." They will also gag the much larger Institute of Nuclear Studies which is being set up at Oak Ridge by an academic cooperative of Southern universities. But in a year or so, Oak Ridge scientists hope, gags will be cut away, and students can go out into the world as missionaries of the Atomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Spreading the Know-How | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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