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...provided by Sarah Lawrence for students of Child Psychology, Personality Development, and The Family. Like Joan, other student actresses find their texts outside of books, in skeletons, housing projects, surgical operations. But the film skip's something that Sarah Lawrence girls spotted right off with a long, loud hoot: Joan never plays...
...author of this how-dy-do was one of the founders of the brash, short-lived Yale Harkness Hoot; at 21 wrote Challenge to Defeat, slapping the face of depression pessimists. In Hannibal Hooker, his first novel, he breezes past all moral and religious stop-signs. He is, in brief, a daring young man, and his agility on literary trapezes is breathtaking. But after his stunts are over, it is not quite clear what all the squirming and leaping were about...
...home in Buncombe County his daddy was a court clerk. Uncle Henry was chief of police, Uncle Dan sheriff, Uncle Gus tax collector. When young Bob first ran for local office 28 years ago, he was smart enough to tell the voters that he didn't give a hoot for them, that he was out for a job and the money. They loved it. Prime dandy of the Senate when he is in Washington, he wears old clothes and drawls "No'th Ca'lina" when campaigning. But he poses in double-breasted suits and violent cravats...
Male or female, Scouts are Scouts. Boy Scouts, some 25,000 strong at their National Jamboree in Washington (TIME, July 12), spent their happiest hours swapping horned toads, pickled scorpions, live hoot owls-everything but puppy dog tails. The first international encampment in the U. S. of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides -only 101 strong-convened last week in a grove near Briarcliff Manor, about 35 miles north of Manhattan, but again the primeval urge made itself felt. Their barter, however, consisted of more appropriate articles, cotton bolls from South Carolina, scarves, tubes of powdered iron ore from Minnesota. Scout...
Pioneer Days. "The early pioneers faced many hardships. . . . Their companions were forest bears, panthers, deer, wolves, wildcats and raccoons. The hoot of the owl drifting on the nocturnal air above the drone of countless insects and the croaking of frogs made the night forbidding. . . . [One pioneer's account] : 'On one occasion I was out with some other gentlemen, John Montgomery, Morgan Thurston and Alex Wilbert in search of a hog which I owned and which was missing, when we were brought face to face with a large she bear and two small cubs...