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...newspapers that run his syndicated column, Walter Winchell has been having trouble. He is feuding with so many enemies-e.g., the New York Post ("New York Poo," "Postitute," "Compost"), Disk Jockey Barry Gray ("Borey Pink," "a disk jerk") and Columnist Leonard Lyons* ("author of the 'Liar's Den' "), that editors and readers outside Manhattan often don't know what Winchell is talking about. As a result, editors have been cutting or killing many of his columns. Last week Winchell announced a plan to stop the mayhem. He will set aside two days a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Feud Days | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

Earl William's pudgy Nanki-Poo was the sole disappointment. His acting would be less embarrassing in a much poorer production, and his forceful tenor shows an occasional affection for jarring flats. Robert Rounseville, however, will sing the role this week...

Author: By R. E. Oldenburg, | Title: The Mikado | 10/15/1952 | See Source »

...cocklebur from a female cocklebur (a female has burs), and whether armadillos are good to eat (they are). No one catches H. Mewhinney with his patter down. When one fan insisted that bookkeeper was the only English word with three double letters, Mewhinney gave him at least three more: "Poo-peepee (a seaman who is peeped at from a poop deck), raccoonnookkeeper (the custodian of a coon hollow) and barroom-moodduller (one who dulls the jovial mood in a barroom)." When another reader asked him to explain the Truman Doctrine in one-syllable words, Mewhinney obliged-in 285 one-syllable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: All Comers Met | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

Trippingly on the Tongue. In London, arbitrating a knotty pronunciation dispute over the town of Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, Wales, His Majesty's Court of Appeal ruled against "Fellee," "Poo-Hellee," and "Poosh-Hellee," finally compromised on "Pwellee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 8, 1950 | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...about 10 years, is not what it ought to be, or even what it once was. For another thing, the technicolor, which is supposed to evoke the fairy tale atmosphere of faraway Japan, only makes the picture look like a collection of colored postcards. And Kenny Baker plays Nanki-Poo, the wandering minstrell, as if he were an Irish Tenor. Apparently some one forgot to tell him that he was not singing for Jack Benny...

Author: By Andreas Lowenfeld, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/29/1950 | See Source »

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