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...prosaic moniker alongside such inspired noms de dishabille as Gaza Stripp, Helen Bedd, and the ecclesiastical ecdysiast. Norma Vincent Peel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burlesque: This Must Still Be the Place | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...shook to the marrow when I read Dr. Stripp's brilliant invocation prayer: "We believe Adlai Stevenson to be Thy choice for President of the United States" [Feb. 13]. How does Dr. Stripp presume God would choose sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 5, 1956 | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...Oakland meeting, heavily attended by students and faculty members from the University of California, was probably the most enthusiastic of all. In the invocation Dr. Fred Stripp, a speech teacher who is acting pastor of the South Berkeley Community Church, pronounced a prayer that indicated inside information: "We believe Adlai Stevenson to be Thy choice for President of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Duel in the Sunshine | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...cree-ay-ter of the gratest comical stripp in all cree-ay-shun, naimly 'Peerless Fosdick,' who is mah ideel. . . . Lately, other comical stripp cree-ay-ters bin cree-ay-tin even more horibul cree-ay-shuns than yo Like ladys wif gravel in thar hare, mudd in thar eyes an who smells badd. Natcherly, the Americun public in-joys this vurry much. . . . Go to it, Gooch, whomp up a lady that is so itchy, so shakey, so smelly, an so onbarubbly disgustin thet once agin yo will be the king of the funny page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lena v. Gravel Gertie | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...proved far more efficient than Brooklyn's famed Arthur ("Dazzy") Vance who opposed him and allowed only five hits, was horrified by news that got out after the game was over. Not only had firstbaseman Arthur ("The Great") Shires torn a knee ligament by colliding with Thirdbaseman Stripp of Brooklyn in the ninth inning; on being hospitalized, he had found that he was also suffering from a broken nose. It had been fractured by a bouncing grounder in the first inning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, May 2, 1932 | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

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