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Possibly his most important pitch, though, was one that he and a fellow comedy writer submitted to Variety, offering gag-writing services "so bad not even [Milton] Berle will steal them." But not only did Berle eventually pay $50 for a page of their jokes, but he continued to buy Brecher's gags, in 1936 made him the only writer on his CBS radio program, and took Brecher along when he moved the show to Hollywood...
...Scrabble has been translated into 22 languages, from Arabic to Afrikaans. Oddly, the game is sold outside the U.S. by Hasbro's rival, Mattel Inc. By the early 1990s, thanks to its acquisitions of Milton Bradley (maker of Life, Yahtzee and Candy Land) and Parker Brothers (Monopoly, Risk and Trivial Pursuit), Hasbro owned more than half of the $1.1 billion U.S. games market. But in 1993, Mattel outbid Hasbro, paying $90 million for the international rights to the game. Hence the game's weirdly bifurcated homepage at Scrabble.com...
...youngest member of the famous Massachusetts political family, Kennedy prepped for Harvard at Milton Academy and entered the College in the fall...
...Harvard (equipped with Tommy Lee Jones ’69) pulls through in the last 42 seconds to score 16 points, for the infamous 29-29 “win” ending a Yale 16-game winning streak and achieving the perfect 8-0-1 season. 1974: Milton Holt ’75 makes a 95 yard touchdown in final five minutes to win 21-16. 1975: Harvard finally wins its first Ivy championship, thanks to Michael J. Lynch ’77 who kicked a 26 yard field goal in the final seconds to pull...
...wasn’t only the adults who had fun—the younger visitors enjoyed the opportunity to showcase their knowledge about Dia de los Muertos. “In Spanish class they [my children] learned about it,” said Natalie S. Fitzgerald, a resident of Milton, Mass., located just south of Boston. “My son knew about it when we came in.” Fitzgerald added that she thought that the museum’s activities helped to draw a younger crowd—and their parents—to the building...