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...gets less bed than bored. Her husband (Stewart Granger) is interested in other things, and her would-be-wooer (David Niven) appears too vague to know what he wants. The only other man on the island is (or seems to be) a savage who can say nothing but "Boola!" In fact, the most interesting thing anybody can find to say is, "Now let me see, is there anything IVe forgotten to do before I turn out the light? H'm. No, I don't think so. Good night, dear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 27, 1957 | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...past when a local firm of solicitors that once handled the affairs of some Yale descendants began clearing out their files. Some of the firm's papers were more than 600 years old, and Amateur Historian Tibbits asked permission to examine them at home. Some of the boola-boola he has since discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Nabob | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...circ. 2,402,346) and one of the most profitable papers in the U.S. Captain Patterson also had an unerring eye for the important, interesting news story to sandwich in between the tales of sensation, told them all in a crisp, flip way under such headlines as: 3,000 BOOLA BOO BROWDER AT YALE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trouble in New York | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...heard only one 'Boola Boola' all night," the Eliot House night watchman commented yesterday. "This was the finest Yale game crowd I've ever seen," Winthrop's assistant superintendent added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain, 'No Liquor' Ban Keep Crowds Subdued Following Football Victory | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

Yale's librarian, obviously imbued with this spirit, serenades the students as they leave at closing time. "Taps" is followed by "Boola, Boolal" on a makeshift xylophone...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman and John G. Wofford, S | Title: Harvard, Yale Law: Academic Parallel | 11/20/1954 | See Source »

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