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Ring of Bright Water, by Gavin Maxwell. Mijbil the Otter did many things he hadn't oughter, and most of them were hilarious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 14, 1961 | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

Ring of Bright Water, by Gavin Maxwell. More resourceful than most current fictional heroes, Mijbil the Otter could turn on a water tap, unzip a zipper and chew razor blades. As a pet, he was hilarious and heartwarming, and so is the book Author Maxwell has fashioned about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 31, 1961 | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

Zippers & Fireplugs. Mijbil, the hero of this book, was about as ottery as an otter can get. Author Maxwell picked him up as a pup in the swamp country of Iraq -unaware at the time that in finding a pet he had also discovered a new subspecies (Lutirogale perspicillata maxwelli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Poet & an Otter | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...member of the musteline family (mink, marten, mongoose, badger, weasel, skunk), the otter is essentially "a big water weasel"-most northern breeds reach the size of a spaniel, but some in South America grow as big as a seal. He looks like a giant, furry snail. He swims as a swallow flies, all liquid grace. He runs like something squeezed out of a tube, and whenever he sits down he looks like a six-year-old girl in her mother's fur coat-in some species his hide is so loose that it hangs down in folds and even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Poet & an Otter | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

Their first trouble came from residents of the local town of Dunoon, who were looking forward to a boost to business from free-spending U.S. sailors. One night a band of about 16 Scots seized the pacifist ringleader, Lawrence Otter, 22, snipped off his four-inch beard and cut his boats adrift. "We don't like you foreigners coming in here causing trouble," they said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: On Station | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

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