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...Littlest Outlaw (Walt Disney) is what the trade calls a "wetback," i.e., a Hollywood picture made in Mexico to save money. The story is all about a little Mexican boy (Andres Velasques) and a big chestnut horse that kiss each other. When the horse is condemned to death by its master (Pedro Armendariz), the little boy steals it and becomes what the title so stickily suggests. He hides the horse successively in a smithy, a barbershop, a ruined hacienda, a boxcar, a church. In transit, the camera takes the usual tourist shots of cactus, fiestas, religious processions, fireworks, cactus. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...when signal-stealing first made a team huddle necessary before each play, the littlest college in Harvard's football history contributed the Crimson fan's most awakening gridiron experience. That was the first year a Harvard varsity football team lost its opening game. And what's more, it was defeated by a squad of 24 players from Geneva College in Beaver Falls...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Small College Rival: A Gridiron Menace | 10/30/1954 | See Source »

...Allen were in a hot competition to turn out the grooviest session. On a Brunswick side of his own, Funnyman Allen told how Goldilocks wandered into the three bears' house, found that "the largest bowl [of soup] was very hot, the next bowl was very cool and the littlest bowl was just right. Naturally she chose the cool bowl." Meanwhile Jazzbo had switched over to Capitol Records, picked up a new scriptwriter (Douglas Jones), and last week released his second pair of "Grimm Fairy Tales for Hip Kids": Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Jack and the Beanstalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Groovy Grimm | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...last big Hollywood censorship case involved The Outlaw, which was shown briefly without a Production Code seal in 1941 and again in 1946. After years of wrangling, Producer Howard Hughes tidied up the film (and his ads) and received an official purity seal in 1949. **Others now shooting: The Littlest Show on Earth, an Italian 3-D spoof of Cecil B. De-Mille's 1951 circus epic, The Greatest Show on Earth: Public Enemy No. i, a lampoon of Hollywood gangster films, with French Comic Fernandel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 6, 1953 | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...world's leading small-star fancier. Last week he was beaming over the smallest star yet discovered: a "white dwarf," 25 light years away from the earth, which he found and analyzed with the help of Dr. E. F. Carpenter of the University of Arizona. The littlest star (Catalog No. L 886-6) is hot (15,000° to 20,000° F.), and it shines with a white light. But it is only 2,500 miles in diameter, not much larger than the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Littlest Star | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

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