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...movie marks the debut of that unrelentingly cute television personality. Sandy Duncan. She manages such soliloquies as "I may believe in a lot of dead things like patriotism and the Constitution, and I like apple pie, because that's the dumb way I was brought up and that's the dumb way I feel" with appalling conviction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Dumb Way | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

Last week Karras did his show in a Santa Clans costume, but his tone was still closer to Scrooge. In a lefthanded defense of spectators who boo pro football teams, he said: "If guys are dumb enough to fork over $7 to see this fiasco, then let 'em boo." Karras, who was suspended from football for the 1963 season for betting on the games, still insists that the real reason he was dismissed by the Lions was that "I've always been critical of the Lions' front office. They do a lousy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Lion at Large | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

...that, submit an ad--fine; if not--I understand. I feel a little dumb about this request but what the hell. If anyone did write they'd have to send their first few letters registered or I won't receive them. These people are terrible when it comes to our mail. Did you send me a copy of that article? It so. I haven't received it. Of course you have my permission to do whatever you like with the contents of this letter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRISON LETTER | 11/23/1971 | See Source »

...Politics is like coaching football," he once said. "You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important." McCarthy seems to have gotten a lot smarter on the second count since his last crusade...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: McCarthy: Requiem for a Lightweight | 11/16/1971 | See Source »

Then again, it isn't every black man in prison who has had the same experience Malik Hakim had when he received a visit from Malcolm X in 1957. "To meet Malcolm for the first time in the life of a black man, to have been deaf, dumb and blind, is like walking into a totally pitch black room and someone turns on a million-watt light bulb. It was probably the most beautiful, the most painful experience I've ever had. Look at it like this. Christians pray to Jesus and if Jesus walked into their rooms they would...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: A Condemned King Held in the Tower | 11/2/1971 | See Source »

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