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...channel got Robert Risko, who does all those Vanity Fair drawings, to draw the characters, and a Grammy-nominated band, Fountains of Wayne, to write two original songs an episode about the plot. They also composed what may be the best theme song ever written, which I would play whenever anyone came into my office, as if I had my own talk show. Then I'd say, "Can I hear your theme song?" and act really sad that the person didn't have one. The end of my theme song went, "Hey, Joel, what do you know?/You...
...channel got Robert Risko, who does all those Vanity Fair drawings, to draw the characters, and a Grammy-nominated band, Fountains of Wayne, to write two original songs an episode about the plot. They also composed what may be the best theme song ever written, which I would play whenever anyone came into my office, as if I had my own talk show. Then I'd say, "Can I hear your theme song?" and act really sad that the person didn't have one. The end of my theme song went, "Hey, Joel, what do you know?/You...
...person determine if he is a candidate for a heart attack or stroke? One way is to have a complete medical examination. Another is to play Risko, a simple game invented and distributed by the Michigan Heart Association and played on a board covered with numbered squares. Participants need merely find the squares that best describe them and then add up their scores. A player who does not smoke can award himself a zero. One who puffs two or more packs a day gets ten points. Seven points are given to all who are more than 50 Ibs. overweight...
Steele v. Risko, Middleweights (145 to 160 lb.) have produced no outstanding champion since Mickey Walker retired in 1931. Last summer, after holding the championship of the class for less than a year, Middleweight Babe Risko of Syracuse, N. Y. lost it to Middleweight Freddie Steele of Tacoma, Wash. Unconvinced that Steele was the better man, Risko challenged his conqueror to a return match. This time, to get the champion into the ring, he had to guarantee Steele a $25,000 purse which he hoped to get out of the receipts...
...Because Risko's excitement about fighting Steele was shared by only 11,661 boxing addicts, net receipts for the bout in Madison Square Garden last week were only $15,000, of which Risko's share was $9,000. Faced with a pecuniary loss of $16,000 for his evening's work, Risko was further disheartened when, after 15 rounds of lively boxing, the referee and two judges gave Steele the decision. Said Risko in his dressing room: "I thought...