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...making $1,500 a week. He had also acquired three new fields to mine for comedy: an apartment, an analyst, and a wife, Harlene Rosen. He was 19, she was 16. The marriage lasted five nettling, unsettling years. Allen learned to deal with melancholy by furnishing it with a punch line. "For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen: Rabbit Running | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...picking up from the Herald Traveler. Probably the best thing Hearst retained was The New York Times News Service, but even that was not the bidding of The Times. Times's managing editor Abe Rosenthal wanted to give the news service to The Globe, but the publisher, Punch Sulzberger, had too many scruples to break the Herald's contract...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: More of the Commonplace | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

Somewhere underneath this level come the literary middlemen, storytellers who can really sell a joke or raise your hackles with suspense. Though their ideas be meagre and their verbal powers limited, they often pack the widest popular punch, and persuasively reflect the pervasive attitudes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slaughterhouse Five | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...computers in Memphis, which keep tab on every room in the system. In a few seconds, a guest at one inn can get confirmed reservations at other inns anywhere in the U.S. If one motel is full, a desk clerk can punch a few buttons on a panel and find out what openings are available at other Holiday Inns in the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: Rapid Rise of the Host with the Most | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

...flaming red hair) and, at 28, seemed to have it made north of the border. Last week, after getting four hits in four attempts against the Cubs, he was hitting .310 and proving almost daily that he was thriving on the international transplant. Fregosi, too, was adding punch at the plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Amazin' Again | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

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