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...last period, and dear old Medfield, trailing 37-35, has the ball on its own two-yard line, first down and 98 to go. The team comes out of the huddle, up to the line of-WHAT! They're trying a field goal! Are they nuts! Ha-Ha-Ha! Who ever heard of a 98-yard field goal! Ha! ha! -huh? The ball is sailing over the line of scrimmage, over the fifty-yard line, over the goal posts, over the state line, over the Atlantic Ocean . . . Ladies and gentlemen, the ball is in orbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Locomotive Laugh | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

Every syllable of her precious name-fat ten ha ma ma-was a treasure on the tongues of the moviegoers of Egypt. She was, by Egyptian description, "the Shirley Temple of Arabian movies"-a star since the age of seven and a radiant symbol of sweet, untouched Islamic puritanism. She was 20 and spoke no English. When she auditioned Omar in her east-side apartment high over the Nile, she said to him: "Do something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces: Arabian Knight | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...tell all his horseplaying pals about the bookie who brought him luck. They get all the cash they can carry and stack the packet on a three-legged lizard whose owner can't even sell it for dog meat. "Eighty to one!" Lana gasps with relief. "Ha! Ha! Ha! It can't possibly win. Ha! Ha! Ha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Yak Derby | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

...greedy antique collector comes to a Bad End, to Roman Catholic Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, who rather admired the sin assigned to her. "Pride may be my own besetting sin," she wrote, "but it is also my besetting virtue. Certainly my life has been spent in saying 'Ha ha among the trumpets.' " Among the other contributions, published in the U.S. this week as The Seven Deadly Sins (Morrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Those Fine Old Deadly Sins | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

Eliot Hall, on the other hand, voted an increase of 18 hours in parietal time. Many Robertson '64 was delighted with the change and giggled gleefully, "I think this is a great move up! Ha! Ha...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Halls Haggle Over Controversial Parietal Question | 11/17/1962 | See Source »

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