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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Despite persistent urban legends, Sales never did blue material for the kids - though his staff did play a prank in which a topless balloon artiste danced to "The Stripper" while the on-set monitor indicated that the career-ending nudity was live on the air. (It wasn't.) He did make trouble for himself on New Year's Day 1965, when, annoyed by having to work on a holiday, he impishly instructed kids to tiptoe into their parents' bedroom, take out "green pieces of paper with pictures of guys with beards" and send them to his New York station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell to the Pieman: Soupy Sales, 1926-2009 | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...Princeton’s a game our kids always get excited about,” Murphy said. “From an emotional standpoint, it’s a good game to play right...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Looks To Run over Rival Princeton | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...impressive season thus far but will need to keep producing (and more importantly, keep winning) to secure any trophies. On the Ivy front, Dartmouth’s Keat (7 goals, 5 assists) looks to be Akpan’s chief competitor. The success of their teams will play a large factor in determining who wins this year...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CRUZ CONTROL: Ivies Struggle, Individuals Shine in Midyear Report | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...with strange and wistful words: his spells are breaking even as he speaks; his return to the mortal world—and to a death that, though outside the comedy’s arc, feels eerily close—is imminent. But Shakespeare’s final play is too full, quakes with too much wonder and life to fall beneath the long shadow of its author’s final bow. The end, be it of magic, of art, or of life, comes only as Prospero himself, satisfied, willingly relinquishes...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roth’s ‘Humbling’ Is Erudite, If Apathetic | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...surprised the students by asking them to sing, rather than play, their Mozart piece...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Yo-Yo Ma Completes GSE Residency | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

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