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...cats you own (they are of every stripe), one had the distinction of being born in a Royal Palace. Aside from the expected accouterments, these pampered pets were the lucky (or puzzled) possessors of such assorted items as: boots, bells, catnip trees, ear protectors, goggles, nail clippers, pajamas, raincoats and traveling cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 6, 1950 | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

Wellesley's Ola Elizabeth Winslow, 55, Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer (Jonathan Edwards), authority on American literature, who could never walk across the campus without a pocketful of seeds for the birds, catnip for the cats, and a troop of neighbors' children following, Pied Piper fashion, behind. Up at 5, she was a prodigious and painstaking worker, gently persuaded a whole generation of students to take after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Rough Reefer. In Boston, police hauled Booker K. Miller into court on a charge of peddling marijuana cigarets, dismissed his case when a chemist's report showed that the cigarets consisted entirely of catnip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 3, 1944 | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Paramount) is a little like taking a nun on a roller coaster. Its ordinary enough subject -the difficulties of a small-town girl, pregnant, without a husband-is treated with the catnip giddiness to be expected from Writer-Director Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve). The overall result is one of the most violently funny comedies, one of the most original, vigorous and cheerfully outrageous moving pictures that ever came out of Hollywood. The picture also has its faults-both as fun and as cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Feb. 14, 1944 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...halls of the British Embassy the presents piled up: crates of eggs, of oranges, mince pies, pecans, a box of onions, a bag of lima beans, two bottles of Napoleon brandy, 5,000 cigars, a set of corncob pipes, catnip for the Churchill cat, a field hat worn by Prince Otto von Bismarck, a wool afghan, a Shriner's hat, silk scarves, gloves, ties, socks, a sweater, a towel bearing the Union Jack, a framed list of U.S. Presidents, a copy of George Washington's will, a painting of the Great Seal of Ohio, a pair of spectacles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bundles for a Briton | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

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