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...that the old duck wasn't half bad. He was drawing near Larz Anderson Bridge now, and he felt wonderful as he idly watched single sculls whisk by far below. Then, he was over on the other side of the river. He turned towards Newell and suddenly espied two pug-nosed Cambridge waifs sitting on the bank fishing. Vag looked at them grandiloquently. "Salve, piscatores," he said. "Same to you, fish-face," came the reply...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 4/29/1942 | See Source »

Warned that Harvard undergraduates may resent his forthcoming impersonation, the ex-pug replied: "If dat is a insult to dose gents ... let 'em sulk. I'm gettin' a tousan' a week, and what are they gettin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rosenbloom at Harvard | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...about a saxophone-playing, airplane-flying, life-loving "pug...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 9/20/1941 | See Source »

...about a saxophone-playing, airplane-flying, life-loving "pug" who is killed fifty years too soon. Mr. Jordan, the big boss in the Beyond, spends the remainder of the picture trying to right this unfortunate shift. Such a plot could easily have been overdone or underdone. As it is, the dish is juicily prepared, spiced with adventure, salted with philosophy, and served up with a humorous flourish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 9/20/1941 | See Source »

Another well-deserved promotion came to William L. Batt, 46, who was Biggers' deputy production director, is now OPM's Materials Director. Batt, a hefty, blunt man with a red face and short pug nose, a powerful off-the-cuff orator, has been booming his head off trying to arouse industry, will now team with Harrison to supply the materials, cut them up into guns, tanks, planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Battle Won? | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

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