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...whole thing is silly," M.I.T. Dean of Men Dana L. Farnsworth commented last night. He said the "demonstration" consisted of some student horseplay with water bombe which received publicity only because Time Magazine reported the banning of "Ecstasy" at Tech on the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judge Criticizes Students in M.I.T. 'May Day Celebration' | 5/23/1951 | See Source »

...sardonic New Yorker article by John McNulty, but Scripters Phoebe and Henry Ephron seem to have leaned more heavily on the comic strip Blondie for their family sequences, and on Damon Runyan for an episode with a Chicago gangster. Director Walter Lang helps out the dialogue with pratfalls and horseplay, but what keeps Jackpot moving briskly to its happy ending is the ingratiating acting of Jimmy Stewart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 27, 1950 | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...Horseplay. In San Diego, Miss Eugenia Welker complained to police that practical jokers spoiled her vacation by 1) listing her house with a rental agent, 2) falsely reporting to police that she had found a diamond ring, 3) sending her ten pounds of horse meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 7, 1950 | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...bounce and some still unwrinkled humor. The story of a young man who is led to mistake a private house for an inn and a gentleman's daughter for a barmaid, it is not least a classic for possessing a classic farce plot. At times less play than horseplay, She Stoops is happily without meaning and forever on the move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Jan. 9, 1950 | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

Back in 1937, Band-Leader Kay Kyser was whiling away the slow Monday evenings at Chicago's Blackhawk Restaurant by dishing out a line of folksy chatter to the customers. Out of such primitive horseplay grew his College of Musical Knowledge, a corny radio perennial which was transplanted last week to television (Thurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Keep It Simple | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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