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...PARK should probably insure its audiences with Lloyd's of London, just in case anyone dies laughing. Playwright Neil Simon's unpredictable wit, Mike Nichols' spry direction, and Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley's comic finesse as a pair of blissfully wacky newlyweds provide incessant merriment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 13, 1963 | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

...PARK should probably insure its audiences with Lloyd's of London, just in case anyone dies laughing. Playwright Neil Simon's unpredictable wit, Mike Nichols' spry direction, and Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley's comic finesse as a pair of blissfully wacky newlyweds provide incessant merriment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 6, 1963 | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

Boston will probably take the series, three to one, from the Gnats, but even if the Red Sox lose, it won't detract from the merriment. For these two clubs are really fun teams. Things never get dull in Fenway Park. A few errors, wild pitches, a fight in the centerfield bleachers, or any contact with that amazing creature -- the Red Sox fan -- is sure to make the ball game a most memorable occasion...

Author: By Richard Cotton, | Title: The Weekend Sports Scene . . . | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

...Scotland Yard investigation and brought Prime Minister Harold Macmillan scurrying back from his country home to London for consultation with his Cabinet. Nevertheless, Canon John Collins, C.N.D. chairman and preceptor of St. Paul's Cathedral, simpered on TV that most marchers "treated it rather as a joke." His merriment was not shared by James Cameron, a crusading journalist who has been a prominent figure in C.N.D. since its inception. Cameron conceded sadly that the ban-the-bomb marches had "become a vehicle for too many secondary and dubious intentions." Admitting belatedly that C.N.D. had been taken for a ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Aldermaston's Amen? | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...piece is a travel ad for Nassau and the Bahamas. An elegant white couple are standing in a well-manicured garden, near a tame sea: "where the islands are dressed to the nines." The reader of the advertisement is assured that "International night owls fill the Bahamas with merriment. VIPs from Europe and America make this their watering place. Wits and Beauties. Princes and tycoons. No velvet rope ever enclosed a more glittering assemblage...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: A Black Man Talks to The White World | 11/27/1962 | See Source »

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