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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grover Whalen wanted Curley to do an English country dance on the Magna Charta at the New York World's Fair. Lepidopterists marveled at Curley's maxillae. People began selling Curley balloons, spaghetti, dolls, toys, picture books. The D. A. R. and the American Legion sent Curley a silver-plated twig and a miniature American flag. When a cinema short on Curley was released, during a time of blizzards and rainstorms, Variety headlined: BLIZ AND DRIZ FAIL TO FIZZLE BIZ AS BUG WOWS B. 0. [box office] FROM N. Y. TO L. A. Walt Disney gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Curley the Caterpillar | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...affair. Upon its roster, generation after generation, appear the same proud Boston names-Adams, Ames, Amory, Cabot, Gushing, etc. Some years ago three great Massachusetts surnames were combined in one Porcellian: Endicott Peabody Saltonstall. When Endicott Peabody Saltonstall was appointed district attorney of Middlesex County, Irish Politician James Michael Curley exclaimed: "Good God, all three of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Pore | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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