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...Maureen Reagan, 21, daughter of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, will shortly make her screen debut in something called Hootenanny Hoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Idols Junior Grade | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...frequently consulted with Mills by telephone. At times it seemed as if the two most important seats of power in the U.S. were the temporary White House in a Palm Beach mansion and Congressman Mills's office in the basement of the post office in Searcy, Ark., just a hoot and a holler from his home town of Kensett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: An Idea on the March | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...spite of, or because of, all the tanbark and trumpets, clowns and candy-butchers, high wires, low jinks and desperate little dogs that can't stop doing backward somersaults, Jumbo is a great big blubbery amiable polka-dotted elephant of a show, just the ticket for a holiday hoot with the wife and kiddies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Absolutely Everything | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...last time I was in New York," wrote Stanley Walker to a friend, "I got the idea that, if we except a few aged but loyal pals, nobody gave a hoot about my presence in the city-indeed, that it would help congestion a little if I went away." These words were doubly bitter, for they came from a man who saw himself as a symbol of the excitement and vicarious glamour of newspapering in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In Search of Legend | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

Poor Gigot. He is not very bright, and he is literally dumb. He seldom has a soul, but he has a heart of gold. People hoot and holler at him when he walks into a bistro-he smiles at them shyly. Children pin tails on the poor donkey-he never gets mad. But he longs to be a member of humanity, and one day he discovers the only place where he is accepted by other people: in a cemetery. After that, Gigot never misses a funeral. He stands at the graveside, shoulder to shoulder with the mourners, and weeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Leg of Dinosaur | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

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