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...Itsy-Poo. In private life, Mary is a quite believable housewife who can't stand housework at all, except for scrubbing floors ("You forget all your troubles and everything except getting that floor clean"),'hates most cooking (beyond fried eggs and melted-cheese sandwiches). And while she is an NBC executive's wife with an eight-year-old son, she says without qualification: "I am a career girl. I couldn't be happy living Laura's life. If I wasn't an actress, I'd have to be doing something else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: How to Succeed Though Married | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...some exotica as well: "The teen-age boy with hemoglobin of only 20% who looks as if he had been blown up with the helium gas used for balloons at the circus-only the skin of his leiTs is like old, dried, peeling leather"; the African whose homemade poo-poo gun had exploded and taken half his face with it; the difficult obstetrical cases, as for instance the pregnant patient who had to be operated on for a ruptured uterus. "The lady had come about 75 miles in trucks. When she got here, she had no blood pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: The Congo Massacre | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...Panic & Poo-Poo Guns. Egged on by a Liberation Committee agent, a loosely organized band of 5,000 pygmoid Bafulero tribesmen rose against the Congolese army. Armed with poisoned arrows and "poopoo guns" (homemade muzzle loaders that fire bolts and nails) and anointed with mai Mulele (Swahili for "water of Mulele"), the 5-ft.-tall warriors believed they had been filled with a juice that made them invulnerable to bullets. In their first encounter with government troops, screaming, white-painted Bafulero died in droves under a hail of bullets near the village of Kamaniola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: With Magic Juice & Lucky Grass | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

Hope is 60. His pace is, if anything, faster than it was when he was 20. As Moo Goo Gai Poo, he will play the ruler of Viet-Poo on TV this week, opposite Martha Raye as Mme. Poo. He is off to Australia next month and is planning a tour of U.S. bases in the Mediterranean area to entertain U.S. soldiers far from home on Christmas Day. Offstage as on, when strangers are around him, he can't stop quipping. "Hey, I'm learning humility," he will say. "I called up my agent today and asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Fish Don't Applaud | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

...tells the story of the illegitimate teen-aged daughter (Rita Tushingham) of a village idiot and a good-time shirley (Dora Bryan). Father is long since na poo; mother and daughter drift through dreary digs in Manchester, flying by night when the rent comes round. Mother sops it up all night, sleeps it off all day, rather likes her daughter when she's nothing worse to do. The girl, given a wit too many and a skin too few, is so hungry for affection that she bites her mother's head off 30 times a day. Grows back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Poetry of Wasted Lives | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

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