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Fred Allen Show (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Guests: Pug-uglies Max Rosenbloom and Max Baer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Mar. 31, 1947 | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...Cairo last week a freckled, pug-nosed Arab soldier-adventurer basked in glory. The Arab press hailed him as a hero. The exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, grey-bearded Haj Amin El-Husseini, received him warmly. The Lebanese Legation gave a reception for him. He granted interviews in his suite at the Hotel Continental, talked cheerfully about starting an Arab war against both British and Jews in Palestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Reunion for Trouble | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...year, for the first time in the history of Manhattan's blueblood Westminster Kennel Club show, was a boxer, a mighty pug-ugly named Warlord of Mazelaine, which won best-in-show over 2,598 rivals. The decision was up to one judge and his conscience, and he cleared it this way: "The Boston [terrier] impressed me very much but the boxer was best tonight. Perhaps tomorrow the Boston would have had the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winners | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...deal with unimaginative studio types. He dreaded having to explain to Warner salesmen in 1935 that he planned to film a tony biography of Louis Pasteur. Paul Muni, he announced tersely, would be starred in a picture called The Death Fighter. "You're casting Muni as a pug?" one salesman screamed, "You'll ruin him." "No, no," Jack said soothingly, "Muni plays the manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cut-Rate Dreams | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Hayes thinks his comedy ideas are best expressed in his characterization of "Punchy Callahan"-a hilarious but touching portrait of an ex-pug, as shapeless, scuffed and unwanted as a worn-out boxing glove. Even after three weeks, busy Copacabana waiters still stop, look & listen to Punchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Comic in Manhattan | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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