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April. In a Bronx court, Mrs. Rose Hein complained that she had found John Looney intruding in her bedroom, said he had told her that he was "looking for a Mr. Grossman, a furrier." Mr. Looney told the judge that he was really trying to peddle some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 3, 1944 | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

Rose Hein complained that she had found John Looney intruding in her bedroom, said he told her that he was "looking for a Mr. Grossman, a furrier." Mr. Looney told the judge that he was really trying to peddle some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 26, 1943 | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...McGuire never went. For this time Mickey was not only jobless but nameless. Irate Cartoonist Fox had haled him into court, forced Mickey to relinquish the name McGuire. But Fox could not make him give up Mickey. In a moment of inspiration Mom suggested that Mickey take the surname Looney. Mickey changed it to Rooney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Success Story | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Example, by Double-Talker Murray ("Looney") Lewis during a Fred Allen broadcast about the New York World's Fair Hall of Pharmacy: "Ilfus on the bildad with just enough reticulation on the nostrum to allograph Ipana, Minit-Rub and Sal Hepatica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Villainy | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...LOONEY Chairman Democratic Executive Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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