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With a half-hour to fill five days a week, the show needed musical interludes, and it got them from Pookie the Lion, a primitive hand puppet. Pookie would "lip-sync" the non-lyrics to Clark Terry's "Mumbles" or break into Johnny Standley's evangelist rant "It's in the Book" or the Animals' version of "(Boom Boom Boom Boom) Gonna Shoot You Right Down," and Sales would madly cavort along, a dervish of prepubescent ecstasy. (The show gave you a music education too.) In the mid-'60s, he had a hit of his own: a dance record, Soupy...
...long it should last. There had been other songs broken up into two sides of a single: Cozy Cole's"Topsy," Ray Charles'"What'd I Say," the Isley Brothers' "Twist and Shout" and, in the early 50s, Johnny Standley's comedy homily "It's in the Book." But the 1965 "Like a Rolling Stone" was, I believe, the first epic rock ballad issued as a one-side, 6min. single. (Within two years, Richard Harris' "MacArthur Park and the Beatles' "Hey, Jude" went Dylan one minute longer, though not better...
...might see Kevin Boyle do his finest frog imitations. You might also see one of the smoothest ballhandlers to frequent Briggs, senior Kyle Standley, like Boyle a three-year varsity veteran...
...clutch, with foul trouble closing in on his squad, Coach Frank McLaughlin looked to his bench and came up with Standley, not an offensive dynamo but a good demonstration of the legend on the back of this season's practice jerseys: "DEFENSE WINS" Harvard...
This Friday, if the same situation arises, there's no telling what the pines will produce. It certainly won't be Standley, but without an equally talented substitute, the Crimson could be lost. After all, Harvard fell to Dartmouth last Saturday, after defeating the Big Green by 15 points in December...