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Bagged he gets. He is the national open champion at something called The Challenge, a game of classic simplicity wherein the contestants see who can swallow the greatest quantity of booze before falling over, heels in the air. Dressed in red ties and baseball hats, Gleason and Actor Paul Douglas once got ready for a major league battle, but Gleason said. "Let's fungo a few first." The preliminary rounds were so numerous that the contest never started; both Gleason and Douglas were beaned by the fungoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Big Hustler Jackie Gleason | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...Toyland has its charms. The March of the Toys is always fun to hear, and even more fun to see performed by brightly colored toys of all sorts and sizes, synchronized in what Disney & Co. call "animotion." Singer Sands, who most of the time is about as hard to swallow as a Vaseline sandwich, suddenly pulls on a fright wig and does a brilliant bughouse turn as a batty old bag who reads tea leaves and such. And Villain Bolger is granted at least one grand line. "Come!" he calls sepulchrally to his comic accomplices. "Let us lurk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nursery Crhymes | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...find some gristle or a piece of meat you cannot swallow, don't spit it out on your plate . . . Place it on the prongs of your fork, then place it on the rim of your plate. Don't let this embarrass you. It is perfectly correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Be Nonchalant | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...swallow our pride and learn to adopt some very important facets of the Russian educational system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 24, 1961 | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...share in the national economy. But particularly population control presents massive problems of its own, Banfield said. "Just what does Kennedy do with those birth control pills? It's one thing for Congress to appropriate money for the pills, but quite another to get the people in India to swallow them...

Author: By Rudolf V. Ganz jr., | Title: U.S. Foreign Aid Doctrine Riddled With Moralizing, Banfield Declares | 11/22/1961 | See Source »

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