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...members of the Kickapoo Tribe, Lighthouse Y.M.C.A. Longhouse, Tucson, Ariz. Indian Guides, we protest the ignorance of your white-eyes Cinema editor in his review of the movie Facts of Life. In the movie, Bob Hope attended an Indian Guides meeting, not a Cub Scout meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 17, 1961 | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...Kickapoo joy juice in a bathtub appears to be one of the highlights of the "Dogpatch Cotillion" which has been scheduled for March 15. The forthcoming dance was announced recently at a Freshman Union Committee meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Plans 'Dogpatch Cotillion' Dance; Jubilee Committee Announces New Officers | 2/20/1958 | See Source »

Flying into Claremore from Washington to address the business-suited Blackfeet, Apache, Sioux, Mohawk, Chinook, Zuñi, Cheyenne, Chocktaw, Kickapoo and others was Commissioner Glenn Emmons himself, onetime New Mexico banker and a longtime neighbor and friend of the Navajo. Listing such Indian advances of the recent past as better health care and improved educational facilities, Emmons declared his own "confidence in the native capacities of Indian people-in their ability to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps if they are only given a decent opportunity." But, predictably, Emmons' words of encouragement fell on ruffled feathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: Ruffled Feathers | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

insisted on trading with Communist China until a U.S. embargo stopped him. Rugged Individualist Isbrandtsen once remarked: "You are almost a scoundrel to be in business these days." Died. Oren Edgar ("Kickapoo Ed") Summers, 68, oldtime Detroit Tiger pitcher (1908-12), whose 18-inning scoreless game (pitched in 1909, against the Washington Senators) still stands as a record; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Indianapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 25, 1953 | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...comparing the average comic strip to Li'l Abner is like comparing an ordinary cocktail to a dipperful of Capp's own Kickapoo Joy Juice, a liquor of such stupefying potency that the hardiest citizens of Dogpatch, after the first burning sip, rise into the air, stiff as frozen codfish. Capp tries to give his readers not only a daily belly laugh, satirical Cappian comment on politics, sex, law enforcement, the housing situation and human rapacity, but surrealistic gobbets of action, mystery, horror and adventure as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Die Monstersinger | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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