Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winnie was a joke on the society scene. At 51, her beauty faded, she was a hopeless hypochondriac who existed on spaghetti and prunes, found it difficult to get up in the morning and impossible to get to sleep at night. She complained that she was too weak to wash or comb her hair or care for her pets-two pedigreed dogs, a huge cage of exotic birds, and a vast aquarium of equally exotic fish. So the dogs dirtied her room, the birds died, and the aquarium was carpeted with dead fish...
...play, which led to a West End part, which led to a contract with the J. Arthur Rank Organization. His rising fame did not pass unnoticed by old Van den Bogaerde at the Times. He called his son on the phone one morning and tried a jolly joke. He had been walking through an underground passageway, he said, and had seen the name Bogarde on posters all over the walls. "You've brought the family name as low as you can," quipped father...
...just Berra's little joke, of course. "Oh, that Yogi," sighed one bemused Yankee. "He scared hell out of me," admitted Mickey Mantle. All the same, the Yankees were working harder than they had in years. With Outfielders Mantle and Roger Maris healthy once again, the Yankees were a far cry from the injury-ridden club that lost four straight games to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1963 World Series. But Yogi was taking no chances. "We had too many pulled muscles last year," he said, ordering ten minutes of rugged calisthenics every day. At practice sessions...
...most of the jokes are lousy, at that. The show starts with a phone call from David's girlfriend. Mr. Foreman picks up the receiver, asks who's calling, and exclaims, "Wanda? What kind name is Wanda?" That's a joke. Yet there are flashes of wit: vicariously excited by David's reports, his friend Marvin asks David if he undressed the leading lady (Yvonne De Carlo--and what an asset she has) or vice versa. David hesitates a second and then debonairly replies, "We got a kid off the streets and paid him a quarter to do it," (After...
Last week the joke was on Theodore R. Sizer, a strapping, stripling Harvard education professor. At 31-and looking a bit young for some Radcliffe girls-he got Keppel's old job, and thus took a giant step forward in the U.S. academic procession. Not without qualms. The school has "one very big problem," he admitted. "A dean as raw as raw can be. This dean has to get out and make contacts in public education. He's got a lot of homework to do in the big cities, in the professional associations...