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...Morey, morey, fairy story, boola, boola, bah! Hmmph, mmph, wmmph, lymph dee doo dah. Bulldog, wooldog, fooldog, boo. Brewster rooster, roister doister, down the oyster, in the sea. You see, Pusey, we see VC, that's why we see victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memento Morey | 11/20/1965 | See Source »

Perhaps it's the heat. Or maybe the humidity. Whatever the cause, people everywhere are coming down with a highly contagious disease-the latest running gag. Right now it is the Thinnest Books, a joke started by Comedian Morey Amsterdam. Thin books are insults between covers, and thinking them up is as hard to resist as a second handful of peanuts. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Games: You're Entitled | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

...femme fatale who exults upon seeing a Marlin: "Rambler, I didn't think you were THAT kind of car." These changes to the warmer side, however, were accompanied by a growing coolness between American and the ad agency that has held the Rambler account for 28 years: Geyer, Morey, Ballard. This fall the $15 million account will go to Benton & Bowles (1964 billings: $137 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: A better way | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...Hooray for Morey McDaniel [Aug. 28] and his fight against telephone hucksters! Although we victims still possess the ultimate weapon-the option of hanging up the receiver-before we can exercise this option we will have already left a trail of wet footprints to the phone or helplessly watched the soup boil over. I'll take asterisks. MRS. ROY H. COFER Berkeley, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 4, 1964 | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

...were not busy enough trying to pass this week's California bar exams, Morey W. McDaniel (Stanford Law, '64) has confronted the state public utilities commission with a 50-page complaint that may rouse debate across the U.S. "Telephone solicitors assault our homes, invade our privacy and insult our intelligence," says McDaniel, 24. "They interrupt us and waste our time. They force legions from the phone book. And their ranks multiply. For home dwellers who want peace and quiet, something must be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Complaints: Asterisks, Anyone? | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

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