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Word: meredith (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suppose there is an uncanny resemblance," says Actor Peter Boyle about his lookalike, the late Senator Joseph McCarthy. Boyle, 40, stars as the Red-baiting chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in NBC's Feb. 6 movie, Tail Gunner Joe. The film, which also features Burgess Meredith as Lawyer Joseph Welch, Patricia Neal as Senator Margaret Chase Smith and George Wyner as Roy Cohn, spans McCarthy's life from his teen-age years to his death in 1957. The title comes from a bizarre publicity stunt staged during his World War II Marine days. To look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 7, 1977 | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...paid $3.5 million for the right to bring its $5 million worth of equipment, Curt Gowdy and "Dandy" Don Meredith into Pasadena for the occasion...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: All This and Football Too... | 1/7/1977 | See Source »

...possess a commodious catalogue of jokes and tricky bits of business, but finally he has to put together some sort of theory as to why people laugh. This is a question that has puzzled minds of the caliber of Socrates' and Freud's, and Novelist George Meredith's and Philosopher Henri Bergson's, let alone your stand-up comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMEDIANS: Howls | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Murphy, the voice of the New York Mets, and color partner Mildren, a former All-American quarterback at Oklahoma, huddled with producer Staeckel at the ABC control truck three hours before the game. Mildren, a graduate of the "Don Meredith twang school of broadcasting" diligently arrived in Cambridge on Thursday...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Harvard's Win Is as Easy as ABC | 9/28/1976 | See Source »

Love letters by Richard Nixon to the wife of a Spanish diplomat? Even at a time when nothing about Nixonian Washington can instantly be denied out of hand, it seemed beyond belief. But high-powered Literary Agent Scott Meredith, whose nonliterary clients include Spiro Agnew and Judith Exner, claims he got an anonymous tip, was instructed to place a cryptic ad in the Los Angeles Times, then heard from a man who turned over 22 letters to the unnamed woman. Meredith added that two graphologists have verified the handwriting. Said he: "I'm not satisfied yet that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 14, 1976 | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

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