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...nonsensical, hack-chop-you're-dead fairy story, cartooned in Japan and dubbed in the U.S. It is not as well drawn as the cartoons Walt Disney used to do, but Disney has neglected the field for live films and amusement-park management, and six-year-olds should howl happily at the replacement. The hero is an emetic little monkey (U.S. adapters thoughtfully assigned Crooner Frankie Avalon to provide his voice) who sets "out to conquer the world. Along the way he collects some traveling companions, including a prince, an excellent pig (voice drolly done by Comic Jonathan Winters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Morte de Gruesome | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...handiwork ensures that all eight additional seats will probably be filled by Democrats. So will three other, normally Republican, districts, where lines were re-formed to include decisive numbers of Democrats. California Republicans, who worked much the same gerrymander ten years ago when they dominated the legislature, could only howl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The States: Ten-Year Itch | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...Howling Whirlwind. At that time, confessed, contrite ex-Communists were no rarity in the U.S. But Chambers was something else-a former Communist spy -and his inside knowledge of the party's machinations drove him on. Public revelation of Chambers' past broke almost by chance: in 1948 he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee after investigators kept stumbling across his name in the statements of other wit nesses. Chambers testified freely that Alger Hiss had been a Communist, but said nothing at first about his past involvement in espionage. As the whirlwind began to howl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Historical Notes: Death of the Witness | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...flat French horn; they think the damn thing's a female"). But one of his most memorable triumphs occurred in the lion house of New York's Bronx Zoo. There one spring day he roared at a hungry and puzzled lion until the beast let out a howl "like something out of Frank Buck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Noise Merchant | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...laments of disillusioned New Frontiersmen paled before the assaults from less charitable quarters-where newsmen seemed almost relieved that Kennedy had at last given them cause to howl. In Chicago, the conservative Tribune reprinted a few Kennedy campaign promises-"I am not satisfied to be second to outer space," "I am not satisfied to have the deadly hand of Communism extend to our former good neighbor in Cuba"-and found those promises "very empty." Detroit's Republican-leaning Free Press pasted the President with scorn: "President Kennedy by his words and actions conveys the idea that he sits with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Down and Up | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

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