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They tune in to watch The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ("such good evil," says a North Carolina viewer), The Rogues ("the best flick on the eye"), The Fugitive ("Fuge" to friends), Shindig or Hullabaloo ("the horny hours"), and horror shows (called "ghoul spools" at Harvard to distinguish them from wild parties). One Rad-Cliffie is the head of a Bullwinkle the Moose fan club, and at Stanford, "Bugs Bunny really causes a lot of comment-there's a lot to say about Bugs Bunny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Habit | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

Wednesday, September 16 SHINDIG (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.).* A variety show featuring different pop singers each week. Premi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Cinema, Books: Sep. 18, 1964 | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

...Saratoga Vichy at black-tie parties. Sousaphones harrumphed, fireworks whiz-banged, and chicken sizzled to a crunchy golden brown. Welterweight Champion Emile Griffith was signed for a nontitle fight; Arnold Palmer and Gary Player were booked for an exhibition golf match. All in all, just the sort of shindig that would have delighted John Morrissey-the man who started the whole bawdy binge a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: The 100-Year Binge | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...Minister Macmillan at a table in London's imposing Warwick House-Roy Thomson of the Sunday Times, Cecil Harmsworth King of the Daily Mirror, Lord Rothermere of the Daily Mail, and the guest of honor, crusty, combative Lord Beaverbrook of the Daily Express, whose 83rd birthday prompted the shindig. "I felt that this was an occasion on which Fleet Street could forget its animosities," said Rothermere, who arranged the affair. "But I assure you, they'll be resumed tomorrow." Said the Beaver: "I have destroyed completely the foolish maxim that the good die young." "Trouble with me," Horsewoman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 1, 1962 | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

...TIME, Feb. 23). Attacking that reply as rude and destructive, Khrushchev repeated his invitation in sharper terms, only to be turned down by Kennedy again (although Macmillan reportedly urged him to accept). Meanwhile. President de Gaulle replied to K., ignoring the 18-member summit as far too big a shindig but proposing a more exclusive four-power parley (including France) on nuclear arms. West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, who fears having the Berlin question dragged into disarmament negotiations, suggested a different kind of four-power conference, one that would deal only with the Berlin question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Allies: The Strains of Partnership | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

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