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...into the game at the end of the first half, and in his first two varsity plays he caught two passes for 85 yards, and one touchdown. Rentzel remained on the bench for the rest of the season, but the team, led by that "magnificent madman" Joe Don Looney and another "Wild Turk" John Flynn, went all the way to the Cotton Bowl where they lost 17-0 to Bear Bryant's Alabama squad...

Author: By J. R. Eggert, | Title: Lance Rentzel: The Laughter Hasn't Died | 2/8/1973 | See Source »

...Gatto. 18. Joe Don Looney. 19. One point. 20. 12 degrees. 21. Jim Marshall. 22. Jerry West. Oscar Robertson, Elgin Baylor, Bob Petit and Bill Russell, 23. Jerry West. Oscar Robertson, Elgie Baylor, Bill Russell and Dave De Bussehere. Each man named himself to the team. 24. Hot Rod Hundley, West Virginia. Fred Schaus. 25. The New York Knicqs. which selected Bill Bradley and Dave Stallworth, and the San Francisco Warriors which picked Walt Hazard and Rick Berry. 26. Darryl Imhoff. 27. Darryl Imhoff. 28. He competed only in basketball and not the high jump. 29. The Boston Celtics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New and Better Exam Period Sports Quiz | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

...cartoons with enthusiasm. He starts by saying things like "Thanks, Mister," with appropriate cartoon intonation. Then comes a little poem written on the death of a friend that ends with "That's all, folks!" Mullhouse's novel, which also ends with the immortal cartoon closing line from Looney Tunes, seals its author's literary future. Jeffrey decides that his own mission in life is to immortalize his friend in a biography. His next thought is that it is damned inconvenient for a biographer to have a living subject messing things up. To reveal more would be unfair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: That's All, Folks | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

...antics, and without even introducing himself he read with his very cultivated, jazzy flat beat voice "On the Question of Freedom," a poem of Yevtushenko's translated by his croonie Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Ginsberg is normally considered, and not necessarily in a bad way, to be slightly looney; but in comparison to Yevtushenko and Barry Boys, he struck one as being beautifully urbane and sophisticated...

Author: By Richard Dey, | Title: Yevtushenko: Lightweight in a Heavyweight's Garden | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

With its laser machines, fights to the death and exotic homicides, Diamonds Are Forever is like a Looney Tune. A chaotic car chase through the streets of downtown Las Vegas is the funniest scene of its kind since Roadrunner last boinked the coyote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Looney Tune | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

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