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This puckered, puckish puss belongs to Cupid. Peering, leering out of your mailbox, his target for today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cupid Capers in Cambridge | 2/14/1953 | See Source »

...PUSS IN BOOTS (28 pp.)-Translated by Marcia Brown-Scribner ($2). A free translation from the French of Charles Perrault makes this classic bubble with mirth while Marcia Brown's illustrations blaze with color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Children's Hour | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

Military Views: Rivals General de Lattre de Tassigny as one of France's best military minds. Rejects the rigid-defense, Maginot Line philosophy of fighting. "Don't sit in your trenches and wait," he says. "Punch them in the puss as soon as they show any signs of moving westward." He believes that NATO's forces, when motorized and brought up to planned strength, could quickly seize the initiative in case of attack and punch their way eastward despite enemy masses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: WEST EUROPEAN LAND COMMANDER | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...Toronto, an oil truck driver said: "Let's drop the damn bomb. Why do we always have to wait until someone swats us in the puss?" In Vancouver, the News-Herald took a straw poll, reported two-to-one sentiment against dropping the bomb now. In Quebec, newspapers condemned the bomb as immoral, but the province's outright pacifism of World War II seemed to be gone. If there was a pattern at all, the Canadian tendency was to seek a scapegoat; more often than not it turned out to be U.S. leadership. Many newspapers across the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Cautious Guidance? | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...dawn came up slowly over Korea, the admiral stepped out on his bridge and squinted into the first light. Commander Charles Kinsella, air operations officer, announced, "Make ready to launch in ten minutes." Captain W. K. ("Puss") Goodney, the carrier's captain, responded with an order to make "fox at the dip"-meaning: raise the code flag for the letter "f" (red diamond on white base)-halfway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showboat | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

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