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...Mike Waller raced 30 yards for a tie-breaking touchdown, and Bryan Keys rushed for 125 yards to help Penn stay undefeated with a 31-17 victory over Lafayette in Easton, Penn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Eliminated From Ivy Race; Columbia Falls | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...Waller also scored from two yards out en route to 88 yards on 12 carries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Eliminated From Ivy Race; Columbia Falls | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...MISBEHAVIN'. The joint is jumpin', again: the jubilant Fats Waller songbook that won three 1978 Tony Awards returns to Broadway with the original cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Sep. 5, 1988 | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...success of Ain't Misbehavin' (and, more modestly, of Side by Side by Sondheim a season before) prompted a string of songbook shows. None has matched the verve or style of Ain't Misbehavin', and none has come close to the rowdy, raunchy yet infectious humor of its songs. Waller's connection with them varies from authorship to merely having recorded them, but they coherently reflect his view of life as meant for play and pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Rowdy Romp into the Past AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...decision two decades ago to pull strings and get into the National Guard rather than risk serving and dying in Viet Nam. It was the most accidentally revealing remark of the week, outdoing even Ronald Reagan's classic Freudian slip at the convention, "Facts are stupid things." As Fats Waller so aptly put it, "One never knows, do one?" In this day when politicians are created like androids by consultants and pollsters, using off- the-shelf parts for everything from hairstyles to stands on particular issues to deeply held moral beliefs, it seems almost unfair that this small item from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Acquired Plumage | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

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