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As war clouds picked up in the 1930s, Low's views assaulted the conscience of all England. He created the character of Colonel Blimp, a florid beefeater with a walrus mustache who symbolized British complacency in the teeth of the 20th century's storms. From a Turkish bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cartoonists: The Statesman | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

Hero and Heroine, Pongo and Perdita, after several months of dogmestic bliss, produce a litter of 15 purebred Dalmatian pups. Fate, the hound, decrees that all their troubles shall not be little ones. The pups are promptly dognaped by a couple of unmitigated curs in the employ of Cruella de...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pupcorn | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

Churchill typifies the son fulfilling "a parental daydream." When Lord Randolph Churchill's political career collapsed, 13-year-old Winston vowed: "My father was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and I mean to be the same one day." The lad burned to help his father "in every fight on every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Be Famous | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

Sometimes the reaction against boredom erupts against the University, and then the answer to the perennial question "What'll we do tonight?" becomes "Let's go up to the Square and jump a few students." Other times the University just happens to be conveniently nearby when a g takes it...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: A Cancer in Cambridge: Juvenile Delinquency | 1/25/1957 | See Source »

Q: You called my clients "lowest mongrel curs"?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Randolph v. The People | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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