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...publicity engine runs smoothest in the Pudding's absurd Man and Woman of the Year Awards. By bringing such luminaries as Liza Minelli, James Stewart and Paul Newman to Harvard, the boys at 12 Holyoke have arranged a can't miss mechanism geared to shower headlines on wheat and chaff alike...

Author: By Christopher H.foreman, | Title: No One Makes Hasty Pudding Anymore | 3/7/1973 | See Source »

...Holt -- assert himself. If Crone is hurting or playing badly. Restic said that he will not hesitate to replace him with Holt. Holt is an inexperienced sophomore, and according to Restic, he can be erratic, which may continue to wreck Harvard's offensive consistency. However, he is Harvard's smoothest quarterback, an option-type passer who whips the ball, and his cockiness may spark the team...

Author: By Evanw. Thomas, | Title: On the Bench | 11/11/1972 | See Source »

...they wanted. Light whiskey is slightly darker in color than Scotch, but noticeably paler than bourbon. Distilled like foreign whiskies, at high proof, it is later diluted and sold at 80 to 86 proof (v. bourbon's usual 86 to 100 proof). The result is by far the smoothest American whiskey, with a flavor close to that of Canadian. Says Joseph C. Haefelin, research director of American Distilling Co., which is producing Royal American light whiskey: "This is not a big-black-cigar whiskey. It's more a filter-cigarette whiskey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Whiskey: Let There Be Light | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

...mentality that creates a market for fake term papers flourishes in most of our schools −all for the noble purpose of charting the smoothest and least scholarly route to a diploma and a job. This is a far cry from the original idea of a university as a haven where those individuals who sincereley wanted to pursue a topic could do so. If students by the thousands can take these short cuts through the groves of Academe and later perform satisfactorily in their careers, perhaps they did not need to enter the groves in the first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1972 | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...Agatha Christie didn't become the world's most popular authoress because of her intellectuality: her specialty is good clean death, and Ten Little Indians does fine in this department. The evening's mystery guest pulls off a couple of the smoothest on-stage poisonings I've ever not witnessed. While Christie may rub our noses in the paradoxes and devious clues she invents, she's a masterbuilder of tension and an incorrigibly clever murderess--which even her hum-drum sentimentality can't hide...

Author: By Alan Heppel, | Title: Ten Little Indians | 3/23/1972 | See Source »

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