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...those two audio superstars. But even in the '50s and '60s, parading his encyclopedic memory for shtick, he was a throwback to every baggypants tummeler, every silent-movie clown. And like those masters, he knew that a pie in the face was the visual equivalent of a rim shot. Set up the joke, do the punch line, get a goopy Soupy face. He explained this precise, predictable rhythm in a 2002 interview with Ed Grant on the Manhattan cable-access show Media Funhouse: "Guy says, 'Where's the watercooler?' I say, 'Alaska,' and get hit with...

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

With ten minutes left in yesterday’s Harvard-Yale women’s soccer game, the Bulldogs snuck a shot past senior goalkeeper Lauren Mann...

Author: By Madeleine Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Beats Yale, Stays Perfect in Ivies | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

With a little over ten minutes left in regulation play, the Bulldogs set out to prove that no game is finished until the final whistle blows. Yale’s Kristin Forster managed to get a shot past Mann and it looked like the teams would be even again. But Kuzma, who is also a Crimson sports editor, slid into the net to stop the ball from crossing the plane into the goal...

Author: By Madeleine Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Beats Yale, Stays Perfect in Ivies | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...that elephant made its presence felt on Oct. 17. At least 14 people were killed and eight more were injured after violent shoot-outs between rival drug gangs careened out of the favela slums and into neighboring communities. In the most spectacular incident, three officers were killed after gangsters shot down a police helicopter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Rio's Crime Problem Be Solved Before the Olympics? | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

Today’s game could eventually determine the Ivy title, which is Harvard’s only shot at making the NCAA tournament...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ivy Leaders Clash In New Haven | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

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