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...point in the evening one inebriated student shouted, "There's the nicest, most realistic (censored) costume at the whole party!" The boy, believed to be a Yalie, was pointing at the uniform of a University Policeman, hired by the Quincy administration to provide some restraining influence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Estimated 300 Students, Tutors Don Masks, Costumes at Quincy Party | 2/13/1961 | See Source »

Sooner or later, readers of Muriel Spark's fiction come to understand that they have been hornswoggled in the very nicest way. The tactics of this talented Scot are essentially those of the confidence man. The Spark reader is entertained by an apparently straightforward, witty story-until the moment arrives when the rug is twitched from beneath his feet, or when a corps of spooks, bogies and supernatural agents start moving the furniture about, playing the devil with the shapes of common objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Confidence Trickster | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

...Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May is one of the nicest ways to spend one. Reaching the main stem by the four-lane highway of nightclubs, record albums, radio and TV (TIME, Sept. 26), this pair, who come on stage in various roles and improvise, who glance at the life all around them and criticize, spend a great deal of their time being funny. By the end of the evening they have left tooth marks on much that is fatuous, wasp stings in much that is vulgar, powder burns on a lot that is neurotic or just human. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Recital on Broadway, Oct. 24, 1960 | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...first chance to pick her own yearling, and after weeks of study, she chose Hail to Reason-which this summer emerged as the nation's top two-year-old. But last week in an early-morning workout at Aqueduct, the horse that Patrice felt had "developed the nicest personality I've seen in a colt" bobbled, broke two bones in his left front leg, and was retired to stud. Said a tearful Miss Jacobs: "In racing, you must take the bitter with the sweet. And this colt gave us so much pleasure." He had also-in his eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 3, 1960 | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

...nicest girl Sinatra's ever gone with-Nicer than Ava, Lauren, Kim, Kyle, Candy, Kitty, Sally, Shirley, Terri, Patti, Marta, Milly, Lana, Lulu, and Lady Beatty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Nicest Yet | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

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