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With half a dozen of the University's finest parked in their office across the hall, a new organization was born in Grays Hall yesterday. Pooh--Winnie the Pooh to be exact--is the word for the new group, which laid frothy plans for the propagation of A. A. Milne's nonsense throughout the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pooh Fanciers Start Club; Rueter Chosen As Christopher Robin | 10/11/1946 | See Source »

Behind this back-to-the Green- Forest movement were two Yardlings, Paul Sapir '50 and Robert Ashenhurst '50 Neither of them were sure after yesterday's meeting what the direction of Pooh Club would take, or even whether it would be approved by the Dean's office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pooh Fanciers Start Club; Rueter Chosen As Christopher Robin | 10/11/1946 | See Source »

Cruelty to mice? Says Founder Jackson: Pooh! "Just gives 'em a spot of healthy exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mouse Racing | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...earlier days to make her treat men so naughtily. But even after she has been killed off in an airplane disaster, he never tells the reader what that something was. "She was so b-beautiful," sobs her bereaved maidservant, "and now she's all b-broken up. . . !" Pooh is the word for Chloe Marr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Now We Are Sex | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Heroine Chloe ("The One Woman, with all London at her feet") is as far removed from Winnie-the-Pooh as Amber is from Little Eva. Her beauty, writes Milne, who is now a frosty and vigorous 64, "was beauty triumphant; alive, challenging, insistent; a brilliant attack on the sex of every man." From the instant of her awakening (around noon) to the moment when her gorgeous form slides between the sheets once more (6 a.m., usually), Chloe's boudoir rings with the anguished moans of a slew of infatuated males, ranging from struggling artists to doddering peers, and mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Now We Are Sex | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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