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...denounce the "dehumanized" network that had neither "loyalty" nor "guts." Comic Shelley Berman chimed in with a call for Paar's fans to march on Radio City with pitchforks. Later, Bean struggled to get the thing into better perspective. "Listen," he said, "the network doesn't stink as a network. It stinks as a human relationship outfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: After Appomattox | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...regular income of $1,200 a week he had served as a "consultant" for "the major record companies." During his last hours on WNEW, Freed danced dolefully with two teen-aged girls at once, accepted a subpoena to face the New York County grand jury, declared: Payola "may stink, but it's here and I didn't start it." Once, he recalled nostalgically, "a man said to me, 'If somebody sent you a Cadillac, would you send it back?' I said, 'It depends on the color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISK JOCKEYS: Now Don't Cry | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...would Oscar think of using bait ("Them's use bait, they're stink fishermen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Stalker | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...even death did not spare her a final characteristic misadventure. Her body lay in state for several days. Gossipist Saint-Simon describes the "most ridiculous thing" that then happened: "In mid-ceremony, the urn containing the entrails exploded with a frightful noise and a sudden insufferable stink. Instantly, there were the ladies, some of them swooning with horror, others taking flight ... the monks ... in the act of singing psalms, all made for the doors ... the chaos was extreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lady Was a Bourbon | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...untidy outer life that included epilepsy, compulsive gambling and enough hardships to stun Job. But few teachers can recognize creativity in children or tolerate it when they do. The child who paints pretty pictures or whizzes through the IQ test is called "gifted." The one who plants an ingenious stink bomb in the teachers' smoking room is a case for the cops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Digging the Divergent | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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