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...Skunk. She loved him at sight. He told her, cautiously, that she was too good for him. He divulged his past: he had gone to Spain after a boyhood near Bridgeport, Conn., had married, fathered four children, deserted his wife, fought for Franco, and ended up in Gibraltar as a police stool pigeon. He had spent five months in jail (for theft) after landing back in the U.S. in 1946. He finally admitted that he preyed on women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Big Martha | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Humphrey Bogart, of Benedict Canyon, Calif., and wife Lauren Bacall left home unexpectedly for a day's visit with friends. The Bogart boxers had killed a skunk in the backyard, laid it triumphantly on the front doorstep, and then romped joyously through the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Homebodies | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Elliott Roosevelt's one-man crusade to "make Christians out of Christmas-tree dealers" by underselling them (TIME, Dec. 13) ran afoul of some belligerent apostasy in Manhattan. "Let him sell his skunk spruce," snorted one dealer. "But the buyers will be getting stung-unless they like their needles on the floor instead of on the tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Screams & Shouts | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Throwback. In Brownsville, Tex., Air Express complained that the Snake King Bird & Animal Farm had shipped a descented skunk which gave birth, en route, to a normally scented baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Finally at two o'clock on the dot a car pulled up to unload five "fools," one rooster, one hen, one pig, one heifer, one dog, one goat, and one skunk. The crowd surged up Plympton Street, through the main gate, up the steps of Widener, in the front door, and through the reading room, band, animals, and enlookers which by this time included most of the Cambridge Latin student body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poon Pet Show Enjoys Brief Glory | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

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