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...farce becomes fairy tale. As one of the world's funnier women, Mildred Natwick can verbally give a line the same corkscrewy twist that Margaret Rutherford manages with massive facial quirks. Nowadays, when even the comic muse pulls a long face, a smiling, unalloyed joy awaits those who hotfoot it to Barefoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Merry, Merry | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

...sign, "No Pigeons Allowed"-which is said apocryphally to have happened in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square. The most effective columbifuge so far seems to be a gooey chemical trade-named Roost-No-More, which is smeared on the cornices of buildings. It gives the pigeons a mild hotfoot, and they avoid its smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infectious Diseases: Kill Those Pigeons? | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

...light-with plenty of time-off for good behavior. The situation horrifies modern-minded Italians, but what can they do about it? Director Pietro Germi has done something wildly, wickedly, wonderfully funny about it. In one of the cleverest comedies ever made in Italy, he has applied a cunning hotfoot to the world's biggest boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Baron Takes a Wife | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...California legislature, Republican Assemblyman Charles Chapel. 57. has a reputation as an incurable practical joker; his humor runs toward infuriating Roman Catholic colleagues by solemnly informing them that someone has just introduced a resolution attacking the Pope. But last week Chapel gave himself a hotfoot-and it could cost him dearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: That's a Joke, Sis | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

Expedition (ABC. 7-7:30 p.m.). The firewalkers of Fiji are shown in action doing the South Pacific hotfoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 23, 1962 | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

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