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...nothing flat. Like Dopey, who would always come running over the bridge fifty yards behind his outfit, there is the duckling that stops to test the temperature with his toe before swimming after the gang, and the gopher who slides down the hill on his fanny while his pals scamper on ahead. Walt, old pal, this is life as l see it. The furriest, plumpest, liveliest achievement of modern impressionism. Bambi and his old lady may be a couple of drips, but the little guys aren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 10/23/1942 | See Source »

...Hutson, the scamper end, who has turned in the most brilliant perform ance in pro football. He not only holds practically every pass-receiving record in the National Football League, but has this season set a new record for points scored: twelve touchdowns (ten on passes), 20 points after touchdown and one field goal for a total of 95 points. The only pro ever to catch three touch down passes in each of four games, his football record has begun to take on the glamor of baseball's Babe Ruth's. In seven seasons, Hutson has scored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Isbell-to-Hutson-to-Title? | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Each morning at 8 he leaves his house in Cankaya, an Ankara suburb, after being blessed by his wife and mother, and walks two miles to his office, striding so fast that his aide-de-camp has to scamper to keep up. Before lunch the President goes for an hour's gallop through Kamâl Atatürk's farm zoo at Ciftlik. He loves horse racing as well as riding, becomes boyishly animated at meetings. In the evening his recreation is quieter: he likes to have three musicians come to his house and play quartets with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Door to Dreamland | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...Dancer Evan-Burrows Fontaine: ". . . in a repertory of exotic ballets, showing what a thin line divides the scamper from the dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hammond Speaks Again | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Mouse Queen Blowers' mice do not scamper madly around her drawing room. They live in nesting boxes-from three to seven in each-stacked in tiers in little huts which hold some 2,000 mice each. Daily they are fed a teaspoonful of oats, alternated with a little stale bread soaked in milk. Mating, classification, feeding, selection for marketing, is a fulltime job for Mrs. Blowers and two assistants. Her mousery produces an average of 1,000 mice a week. Prices range from $1.50 a dozen for mice for experimental laboratories, to $5 to $7.50 each for the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Mice Beautiful | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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