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...venue "struggled for a while" as he remembers, but soon the outlook for Second City - and its brand of satiric comedy - changed forever. On Oct. 11, 1975, Lorne Michaels, along with fellow NBC employee Dick Ebersol and president of the network Herb Schlosser, launched Saturday Night Live, a genre-defining mix of music and sketch comedy whose cast was stocked with Second City alums like Dan Aykroyd and Gilda Radner. In large part thanks to SNL, Alexander says, "comedy became the rock 'n' roll" of the 1970s...
...Last night, this FlyBy correspondent (a resident of Pfoho) was sitting in the dining hall, resigned to the fact that a long, tragic night of panicking and studying lay ahead...
...course. Pfoho had just won the House Survey Life competition with a 90.7 completion percent, narrowly beating out Kirkland’s 90.2 percent. If exactly two more Kirkland students had completed the survey…well, this might have been a very different sort of night in Pfoho...
...doors to history ... I know what this win means to many of us who thought we could never achieve high office. I know what it means. I understand, because I feel it too. But now, from this moment, let us join as one community." - Addressing supporters on election night (Houston Chronicle...
Roberts, however, continued to make non-medical claims. Before an audience of 6,000 at ORU in 1987, the evangelist said, "I've had to stop a sermon, go back and raise a dead person," adding good-naturedly, "It did improve my altar call that night." Roberts provided no details. Later his son Richard expanded the revivification claim, asserting that in 50 or 60 cases, Oral and other ministers had raised the dead. It was, perhaps, not that great a leap from one of the original miracles that helped make Roberts' name in the 1950s: he claimed to have prayed...