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...Young, in his confusion, bit into a banana belonging to Kearns, then desperately tried to make amends by patching it messily with another banana. In the radio and TV gagwriters' vocabulary describing audience reactions to gags, a laugh is the lowest thing on the scale. Then comes the howl. After that they yell, and finally, on rare occasions, they scream. During Young's banana routine, there was no doubt that the studio audience screamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Perfect Schnook | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...university lift its ban on Negro students? Two days before the poll, the university's five-judge student court called the whole thing off. With last-minute effect, anti-referendum forces had argued that i) a vote to keep the ban would give the Russians another chance to howl at the U.S., 2 ) a vote to lift the ban would bring a lot of howling Texans down on the university's neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Let's Not | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

While the future of hockey and baseball television seems fairly well assured, it will be interesting to watch developments in boxing and football, for if there's much more curtailment in these fields, the setowners are bound to raise a howl...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: FROM THE PIT | 12/7/1949 | See Source »

...could easily topple France's shaky cabinet, he kept Premier Bidault constantly informed of the trend of talk at the Quai d'Orsay, and once Acheson and Bevin had to wait while Schuman rushed off to brief an emergency cabinet session. The Reds promptly set up a howl that Schuman was selling France down the Rhine. The Communist L'Humanité gibed: "Serons! nous cocacolonisés? [Will we be Coca-Colonized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Traffic Jam | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...airport, at the Air Force's Boiling Field across the river, and along miles of streets in Washington and its suburbs, sirens began to howl. Ninety ambulances, dozens of police cars careened to the rescue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Bolivia 927! Turn Left | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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