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...Barbara Mutton got things straightened out with London's gossipy Tatler, which had reported her married to Australian Playboy Freddie McEvoy and sharing the "super-suite at the Carlton." The correction: Miss Hutton was not married to McEvoy and was not at the Carlton; she "treated the matter most generously by accepting this apology, coupled with a substantial payment to the Maternity Ward of the Royal Northern Hospital by The Tatler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 8, 1946 | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...Sheep's Clothing. In Ottawa, a hungry patron stalked into a lunchroom on meatless Tuesday, thrust a struggling sheep on a popeyed waiter, barked: "Make me a mutton sandwich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 27, 1946 | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...lips, and allowed that maybe he could arrange to oblige. So Romajean came to sing in the choir of the Primitive Pentacostal Host Church, and Gudger figured that he had added another tender ewe lamb to his flock. Preacher Gudger's flock was largely old goat and tough mutton: Old Lady Clutiebelle Tippy, Thrash Mancil, Miz Pinniz Nice, Crave Tollett and a few dozen other crackers from the Orange County, Fla. flatwoods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Florida Flatwoods | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...vocally." Says Maggie: "That Olin Downes! When I sing about fire, I want people to see the buildings and hear the screaming, and he says 'go away and don't bother me.' He has no soul, no imagination. He is stone cold, like a piece of mutton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gay Maggie | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

...brought out from the East and Midwest 50-odd years ago to staff the Fred Harvey system of depot lunchrooms. As history, this thesis might astonish even the late Mr. Harvey. As light-horse-opera, complete with cowboys, Indians, a rattlesnake, a railroad and Judy Garland in leg-of-mutton sleeves, it has its points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 28, 1946 | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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