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...read the script for Director Taurog's second try. That may have been unfortunate. For Men of Boys Town substitutes tears for sincerity. No one has time for happiness at Boys Town because the boys are too busy blubbering-over the death and burial of a pet mutt, the refusal of an embittered reform-school inmate to cheer up, the adoption and departure of their boy mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema, Also Showing Apr. 28, 1941 | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Wadding "Bull" Souder '41 and stilt-legged Doug Shepardson '41, Mutt and Jeff of Adams House, are not content to wave a flag on Patriots. Day like every other good American. They will display their national spirit by running the twenty-six mile annual bunion derby from Framingham to Boston in seven hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PATRIOTS WILL RUN 26-MILE MARATHON THRU WELLESLEY | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...American soil. He gazed about him wonderingly. He had just emerged from the auditorium of the Geographical Institute where a militaristic French movie and a super-patriotic news reel--both entertaining after a fashion--had been shown. Through the doors poured dual streams of middle-aged Cambridge matrons, Mutt-and--Jeff pairs of Radcliffe girls, a sprinkling of Brattle Street subdebs, some dapper, be-mustached French instructors, and a handful of Harvard men. The latter seemed like some of Thurber's male animals in a war between the sexes. In the lobby the matrons were efficiently shunted past a line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/26/1940 | See Source »

...three periods on Saturday, as 62,000 braved the elements, and countless thousands listened by the fireside, rain, that great leveler of unequal teams, made an underdog Bulldog into a very stubborn mutt indeed. Up to the middle of that last canto, the Elis, led by their great Sophomore quarterback, Ray Anderson, had piled up eight first downs, while the Crimson cohorts had been able to negotiate only three...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Crimson Downs Stubborn Bulldog, 7-0 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...sure that Bud Fisher could tell you, however, of a time some years ago when he did just that. According to my memory, once while President Coolidge was vacationing, Mutt and Jeff journeyed to the Black Hills for a several-days' visit with him. Having proudly attired themselves in formal clothes for their first meeting with their host, they were bowled over when the President cheerily greeted them wearing a cowboy costume. PAUL W. KEVE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 1, 1938 | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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