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...sorry that the supposed funny men of the Lampoon do not realize that humor is a great panacea for the world's ills and a strategic weapon in the present fight against Communism. It is sad, indeed, that such a petty sense of property has caused the Lampoon to crawl sniveling and whining to the state department. It is a move that can only sour the nation's laughter. For the state department to take a hand in returning the bird would be nothing short of appeasement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poonsters Demand Russians Return Ibis | 4/22/1953 | See Source »

Young Jack took over. "Be ready to catch them," he yelled to his father. "I'll see if I can crawl through," and he charged up the stairs. On hands and knees he groped his way into the bedroom. He picked up the two boys and tossed the younger out the window into his father's arms below. But as he did so, Brian wriggled away, and ran back toward the flames. His shirt blazing, his shoulders and arms already burned, Jack took after Brian, caught him, carried him to the window and dropped him to safety. Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: I Didn't Really Do Owt | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...expensively Technicolored penny dreadful, casts Robert Newton as the infamous 18th century privateer Edward Teach, popularly known as Blackbeard. In this fanciful biography, Blackbeard is as blackhearted a buccaneer as ever sailed the Spanish Main. As one of his own crew puts it, he "would make the flesh crawl on a squid." His shaggy beard daintily decorated with red ribbons, Blackbeard goes about flogging, stabbing and stringing up his enemies with the greatest of gusto, laughing fiendishly all the while. He cuts his rivals' throats, runs them through the gizzards and lashes them to the mast. But Blackbeard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 22, 1952 | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

...anonymous letter-writer-presumably a refugee who had wandered upstairs-recently wrote health officials in nearby Bad Segeberg, urging them in horror to hurry out and take a look in a room in Steenbock's attic. What the health officers found there was enough to make their flesh crawl: half-dead on a filthy mattress huddled a tiny, emaciated creature that looked less like a child than some weird variety of furless monkey. It was about 3 ft. tall, weighed less than 20 Ibs. Long, black hair hung in greasy strings around its shriveled face. It was too weak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Prisoner in the Attic | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

Many Littauer students who must crawl all over each other for good grades view this procedure with some distress. With some justification, they complain that the extension students are corrupting the academic standards for Littauer's highest degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Close the Barn Door | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

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