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Things are just as bad over at the Hortons in Days of Our Lives ?but nipper. Venerable Dr. Tom Horton is presiding over four generations of chaos. His wife's religious faith is wavering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sex and Suffering in the Afternoon | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...Little Nipper. We wouldn't have known much about Lady if it hadn't been for that little nipper "Woody" Woodhouse who lived across the green from Lady. Woody was eight when he first took a shine to her. But he was the one Mr. Tryon chose to tell Lady's secret story, and as time went by he sure was a burden on her and the rest of us. Always digging into her closets and chifforobes, eavesdropping and peeking into folks' windows. More than a few of us wanted to dump him in our picturesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tourist Trap | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

...hero of For Kicks has a crippled hand. Forfeit-one of Francis' stronger plots-is marred by a wife in an iron lung whose patience rivals Penelope's. In the new book, the hero has a damaged child-big brother dropped her on her head, poor little nipper-but fortunately she is a continent away from most of the action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Francis, Go Home | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

More than 30 years ago, TIME noted that "7,000,000 radio fans would find life harder to bear without Vic and Sade." Now, for all of us who regularly turned to the RCA Little Nipper or Philco Super Heterodyne ("No stoop, no squat, no squint"), it is time for nostalgic celebration. Vic, Sade and Rush Gook are back, along with Uncle Fletcher, Blue Tooth Johnson, Mr. Gumpox, and all those great everyday people who lived somewhere west of Dismal Seepage, Ohio, and east of Sweet Esther, Wis. As for the young, who may have wondered about cryptic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bow-Wow and Barley! | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

Norwood (Simon & Schuster) by Charles Portis, 32, a journalist who was briefly a New York Herald Tribune correspondent in London, finds its anti-hero in Arkansas. Norwood Pratt, an ex-marine who runs a Nipper Independent Oil Co. Servicenter, gets sick and tired of living with his sister Vernell and her husband Bill, a disabled veteran who refuses to go halvers on the weekly food bill and leaves "hairs stuck around on the soap." Norwood makes a deal with Grady Fring the Kredit King to drive an Olds 98 to New York, expenses paid and $50 clear. Fortified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The First Novelists: Skilled, Satirical, Searching | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

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