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...give a hoot" attitude which the guardians of virtue identify as "voluntary cooperation" is a source of grave danger. It is present-day censorship's trump card...

Author: By David W. Cudhea and Ronald P. Kriss, S | Title: 'Banned in Boston'--Everything Quiet? | 12/5/1952 | See Source »

...convention time came nearer, and after Ike got the Republican nomination, the pressure on Stevenson to say yes or no became almost unbearable. In Minnesota, asked what he would do if he got the nomination, he gave a hoot of nervous laughter and said: "I guess I'd just shoot myself." Two days before the convention opened, in a more serious tone, he told his own Illinois delegates not to vote for him, saying that he did not aspire to the presidency and was "temperamentally, physically and mentally" unfitted for the job. Told of a Washington story that President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Whose Adlai? | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

Died. Septer Palin, 74, oldtime harness racing driver, horse trainer and two-time winner (with Greyhound in 1935, with Hoot Mon in 1947) of the Hambletonian; in Lexington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 13, 1952 | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...yodel used to be highly functional as one of the best ways of signaling friends in the Alps. Now that they have telephones, the Swiss use their ability mostly to entertain themselves. It still warms their hearts to hoot and hear the sound bounce back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Yo-Di-Li-O | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

John Lipon and the venerable Dizzy Trout won't mean much in the grand scheme of things, true. But Hoot Evers could bring the pennant to Fenway. He's fast, he's strong, and although he didn't hit a loud foul all last year, he can be a big man at bat. He proved that...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 6/5/1952 | See Source »

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