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...humor. When his girl back home in Colorado wrote she wasn't going to visit him this summer, he wrote and told her he was so desolate that he was going to defect. The next letter she would get would be from the Kremlin, he added with gleeful literary pique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Abroad: It Loses Something In the Translation | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

...COUPLE. Art Carney and Walter Matthau are wonderfully droll as two recently dewived men. Neil Simon's lines and Mike Nichols' direction keep the play on the brink of gleeful absurdity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 14, 1965 | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...COUPLE. Art Carney and Walter Matthau are wonderfully droll as two recently de-wived men. Neil Simon's lines and the wild comic touch of Director Mike Nichols keep the play on the brink of gleeful absurdity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 7, 1965 | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...Gleeful Republicans pounced on Wagner's words, demanded a full investigation before the State Commission of Investigation, where Wagner detailed the offer, which he had indignantly described as "tantamount to a bribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Lulu of a Fight | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...turtle race with her pet "Knight," while dozens of girls danced the monkey and the bird. Miss Teenage Memphis disapproved, saying: "I feel I cannot live for God and participate in the vulgarity of some of the modern dances." When the feathers settled, the winner was a gleeful soprano, Carolyn Mignini, 17. a Baltimore oriole who will use her $10,000 prize to study at Juilliard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 20, 1964 | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

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