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...popular Doctor series, begun nearly ten years ago, has, with this fifth reprise, taken a decided turn for the worse. All the hospital hanky-panky is still there. All the droll British bit players. All the anatomical jokes, delivered by Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) and Sir Lancelot Spratt (James Robertson Justice), whose medicareers have provided them with a decade of job security. But the humor has grown progressively more frail, foolish and familiar. Nobody really cares when the adipose Sir Lancelot goes on a diet to win the love of his physiotherapist, and deep within the tissue of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sick Comedy | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

...Congress of Racial Equality makes claim to inventing the sit-in and the Freedom Ride. Formed in 1942, it first tried the sit-in technique that year on a Chicago restaurateur named Jack Spratt. Says CORE'S National Director James Farmer, 43: "The N.A.A.C.P. is the Justice Department, the Urban League is the State Department, and we are the nonviolent Marines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE BIG FIVE IN CIVIL RIGHTS | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...steerable, as in an automobile. The plane's sponsors, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., admit that the loose-jointed wing is still in the experimental stage. But they hope that the perfected version will make light airplanes as easy to manage as motorboats or automobiles. Its designer, George Spratt, flies it with ease, but says he cannot fly a conventional, fixed-wing plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: All-Purpose Wing | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

George Foley had also supervised the erection by Spratt's Patent Ltd. of a mile of temporary kennels, in which the dogs lay panting, yapping, sleeping, in which handlers & owners, as well, occasionally took refuge. In three days the So tons of dogs were fed four tons of Spratt's dog food, a sop of wheat, meat, bone dust, and water. Foley for his order, Spratt's for their larder, between them pocketed a large slice of the 875.000 laid out by the Club. Other major expenses: $20,000 each for rent of the Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: 1 of 3,093 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...might as well call Ford, by one of the biggest agencies in the country, that had the most incredible mistakes so far as the polo background was concerned: the noble steed shown was some curious kind of saddle horse, the tack might have come as a premium for Spratt's dog food, the helmet was an invention of the artist, the sideboards had posts on the inside of the field, and so forth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 1, 1935 | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

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