Word: phil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left practically unguarded. Navy creamed three out of Texas's first four running plays. But then, on third down, with the ball on his own 42, Carlisle dropped back and did the one thing the Middies never expected: he threw the bomb. On the Navy 40, Wingback Phil Harris-who had caught only five passes all season-daintily sidestepped Navy's Pat Donnelly and reached up. Down came the pass, spiraling prettily into his hands. No one touched Harris as he scampered all the way to the end zone. Stocking-footed Tony Crosby booted the extra point...
...Died. Phil Baker, 67, master of ceremonies from 1942 to 1950 on CBS radio's pre-inflation giveaway Take It Or Leave It, who asked questions of such amiable simplicity ("Which of these MacDonalds had a farm?" Old.) that his challenge, "Now here's the $64 question," found its way into the language; of cancer; in Copenhagen...
...foot long golden sign it proclaims itself--South Africa's oldest and largest commercial and secretarial school. Harvard in Johannesburg is more reputable and restrained than its arch-rival Yale. That secretarial school, as one might expect, has a gaudy red neon sign which hawks its wares above Phil Morkel's furniture and Bethlehem's home appliances. The third member of the Big Three, nearby Princeton College, is currently embarked on a major building program...
...tosses some barbs at the television industry ("the smallest show on earth"), and provides a rollicking scene of vitriol and mass confusion among the show's writers. Preston is surrounded by a fine supporting cast in this scene, particularly Leon Janney as the executive of a rival studio and Phil Leeds as the inventor of a machine which provides canned laughter for TV shows...
...since he was in his teens. His father was a dress salesman, and the Simons lived in an apartment in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. Doc and his older brother Danny were a professional writing team for more than ten years, servicing miscellaneous nightclub and television comics from Phil Silvers to Jackie Gleason...