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...those semi-intellectuals who scout among the theatre listings, searching for ripe-sounding films at which they will be able to mock the public taste, to laugh at the wrong times, and to burp obscenities in love scenes, White Christmas will seem a promising tidbit. What unparalleled opportunities for bad taste--Bing Crosby as a lover, Rosemary Clooney as a singer, Danny Kaye as a wise-cracking comic, Dean Jagger as a crusty, kindly old general! All in Technicolor and Vista Vision tool How could it miss...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: White Christmas | 10/30/1954 | See Source »

This is in tribute to a proper hippopotamus called "Happy" who died three years ago today in Boston's Franklin Park Zoo. He was a most excellent hippopotamus, living peacefully and heavily to the ripe age of 32 1/2, dining noisily on bales of hay and shovelfuls of beets. During the long afternoons, when things were slow, he would swim leisurely in his tank, coming out occasionally to dry himself in the sun. "Happy" took life easily, and when he yawned, it was a twenty-two inch event. He led an aristocratic existence if ever there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Proper Hippo | 10/27/1954 | See Source »

From Irving Ives, after his wife's skirt was spattered by a ripe tomato in Watertown, came some of the harshest language yet heard in a harsh U.S. political season. Cried Ives: "I've been under worse fire than that. I can't be more eloquent in what I have to say about this opposition than what has just been done here on this platform. It was aimed at me, and it's all right, because it came by indirection from Tammany Hall, the outfit that's running this campaign on the Democratic side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Battlers | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...Ewart needed all the help he could get in his race against Jim Murray, who has become a habit with Montanans. Every six years, the Republicans figure Murray is ripe for plucking. His age (78) is cited against him. and he is a pariah to the Democratic isolationists following ex-Senator Burton K. Wheeler. D'Ewart, whose congressional district covers more than half the state, is well-known and well-liked. Nevertheless, chances are Montana will re-elect Murray, as it has since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: We Shall Ride Forward | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...Russians went, Hamid and Rusi went too, yelling such things as: "You're no pilgrims; you're Communist propagandists! You serve the Moscow atheists!" In Mecca (pop. 90,000) there are some 13,000 Moslem refugees from Russia, so Hamid and Rusi soon had plenty of help. Ripe tomatoes and Mohammedan Bronx cheers greeted the harassed Reds in Mecca's streets, and celebrities whom the Communists wanted to meet, among them Saudi Arabia's King Saud, refused to receive them. Hamid and Rusi were happy hadjis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Propaganda Pilgrims | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

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