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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is National Cat Week. The fact was brought home to William S. Wheeling '50 at 3:30 a.m. yesterday when he heard a forceful scratching on his Adams House door. Outside was a large and unhappy eat; dirty, frazzled, and pregnant. Wheeling, taking pity, let the animal in; a few minutes later it produced four varicolored kittens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feline Emergency Presents Cat's Cradle to Adams Room | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

Mitzi's prone, aluminum Lovers (TIME, May 5, 1947) was almost embarrassingly specific, but her bronze Eve (see cut) showed the highly literary kind of generalization Mitzi was after. Eve looked a little pregnant; the applelike belly was inlaid with a brass circle and what looked like veins. "I wanted a feeling of built-in guilt," said Mitzi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Woman in a Bird Bath | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...parents. For boys, there is a service station whose lubricating-hoist, air-hose and gasoline pump really work. For girls, there is an electric vacuum sweeper that sweeps, and scores of stuffed animals and dolls that demonstrate one or another fact of life. There are hens that lay and pregnant dogs and rabbits whose offspring tumble out of zippered stomachs. There are dolls that coo when patted and cry when spanked and eat crackers (removable from a hole in the neck). There is even one which blows bubbles and, if "burped" like a baby, promptly burps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Babes in Toyland | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...long as the story sets up problems for bouncy, pregnant Peggy (Jeanne Crain) and her glum G.I. husband (William Holden)-and answers their problems with advice from Socrates and Spinoza-Apartment for Peggy is a pleasant little movie flavored with idealism. Then it spills over into woman's magazine fiction and some heavy bathos about a retired philosophy professor (Edmund Gwenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...Faiman is a stocky, baldish, well-dressed man with a neat brown mustache and a look of respectability. He lives in an exclusive section of Dallas, drives a green Buick, has an attractive second wife. He has been supported in his pleasant position by panicky pregnant girls. Last week "Dr." Faiman was under a two-year prison sentence for selling "abortion paste" in interstate commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of the Violet Paste | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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