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Outside the Hilton, at the corner of Michigan avenue and Balbo Drive, I stood talking to Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill was kicking around the world as a correspondent. I noticed he liked to watch the reaction when he stuck out his hand and said, "Hullo, I'm Winston Churchill." For he resembled his grandfather's pictures taken when that young Winston covered the Boer War at the turn of the century--boyish and freckled, greedy for trouble. Now, behind the police lines, Churchill and I chatted with a guilty, voyeur's air, as if awaiting some illegal sporting event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHOLE WORLD WAS WATCHING | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

...Fungus the Bogeyman (Random House; $4.95). Fungus is free to do what kids cannot: live underground, put grease in his hair, make things go bump in the night and in general be a grain of sand in the public eye. His adventures cover oversized pages full of puns ("Hullo, my dreary," "my direling") and bile green anatomy charts that provide a perfect send-up for the child who has ODed on gnomes and faeries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Child's Portion of Good Reading | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...Hullo, I just found a lump of coal...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Beating a Dead Parrot | 2/11/1978 | See Source »

...Wodehouse proved to be a masthead reader too. In the 1955 Christmas issue of Punch, he published a poetic catalogue of our editorial staffers, including then-Managing Editor Roy Alexander: "How very much I would enjoy,/ To call Roy Alexander 'Roy'/ And hear him say 'Hullo, dear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 20, 1973 | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

...Falling into the same old-Socialist habit of exaggerated informality, he greeted Prime Minister Golda Meir with a hearty "Hullo, sister," embraced her as her astonished staff members gaped, and, after an 80-minute talk, parted with '"Bye, lovey." During a dinner party, he reportedly told Mrs. Meir that she need not speak so possessively about Palestine because "you are merely a Jewess from Russia who came to Israel via America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Levantine Laugh-In | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

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