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...coins on the street corners of dusty Southern towns. In 1948, he moved to Memphis and started out as a disk jockey and singer, billing himself as the "Beale St. Blues Boy." That was soon shortened to Blues Boy, finally to B. B. (his real first name is Riley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Blues Boy | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...What was the name of Gillis' wife in Life of Riley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Who Remembers Gerald McBoing - Boing? | 12/3/1968 | See Source »

Lamar plans to use a six man line against Princeton, with the ends meeting the play, but will be ready to shift into a five man line or even a seven man line. Much of the pressure will be on Crimson linebackers Frank Veteran and Dave Riley to seal the holes that single wing trap blocks open...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Gridders to Re-align Defense For Tigers' Strong Single Wing Attack | 11/9/1968 | See Source »

...like the stilted toast that the three Guardians intone to the future of their charges. And it no longer seems much fun to speculate on the writer's half-veiled allusions (do a pair of spectacles with one lens missing and a jaunty song about "The One-Eyed Riley" have something to do with Matthew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Conversation Pieces | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

...computers can make art, but that humans are more essential than ever. For each of the drawings, a detailed program, painstakingly prepared by a human, was needed; the computer did no more than fill in the requested dots and lines. No genuinely observant viewer could ever confuse a vibrant Riley or a vertigo-inducing Steele painting with the computer's dry, mechanical variants on the original works. And, elaborate though Tsai's kinetic sculpture may be, it too needs a human, in fact two: one to build it and one to clap it into life in the exhibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Cybernetic Serendipity | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

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