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Thefts such as these have been going on "ever since we opened Wellesley up to those Harvard boys," according to a house mother. Another commented that she "didn't give a hoot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooter Hovers Here, While Waban Worries | 10/2/1951 | See Source »

Missouri's Clarence Cannon, House appropriations czar, greeted the request with a hoot. "Any preparation we make for fire-fighting and for hospitalization is a drop in the bucket," he said. "Our only hope ... is to altogether avoid war. The greatest asset in civil defense is that the nation be so strong from a military point of view that no nation dare attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL DEFENSE: Bomb Shelters Away | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

Detroit is still in the slump which struck it last September. George Kell and Vic Wertz are the best third baseman and right fielder in the game, but only Hal Newhouser is pitching adequately. Hoot Evers, easily the best left fielder in the league last year, is hitting .133 and sitting on the bench. Johnny Lipon's fielding at short has fallen apart after a great year. Only catcher Myron Ginsberg has shown improvement...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 6/5/1951 | See Source »

...painted them with a radiance that has not yet been surpassed. As a young art critic, John Ruskin saw their greatness, but most of Turner's fellow academicians did not. Because Turner dared paint sunsets as they really look, and because toward the end he cared not a hoot for composition, he was accused of tastelessness. He still is, but good taste remains a refuge of minor artists, one Turner had no need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Loftiness in London | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

Donald Duck has not yet been called to testify before the Kefauver committee, but his appearance there could scarcely have been more surprising last week than the performance of his distant cousin, a politically conscious Hollywood owl. The owl, Dr. Owsley Hoot, brainchild of a onetime Disney employee named John Sutherland, is the chief character in Fresh Laid Plans, a nine-minute animated cartoon independently produced by Sutherland and distributed throughout the nation by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well-Shod Owl | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

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