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Doubt about the workability of consigning the saxophonist, clarinetist, spinet piano thumper, and the "just learning" violinist who inhabit his entry to Holden solitude was expressed by Proctor Jerrold Scoutt 3L last night. He had no doubts about the desirability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Virtuosi Given Holden Chapel For Practice as Freshmen Rejoice | 10/9/1947 | See Source »

...runners I ever saw. Better than Bertelli. And Fast? . . . at school he ran the hundred in 9.6. Two years in the Army have really filled him out, and if Brown doesn't make All-American this fall something's sure wrong." That's the beginning. A good tub thumper has the same story on everyone who has even looked at a football suit...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

Wishful anti-Perónistas seized on the last remark as proof that he was slipping. Their points: he was having trouble holding his Nationalists, Radicals and Communists together; one of his best-known labor leaders had quarreled with him; his old nationalist tub-thumper, La Tribuna, this week broke with him for getting ready to sign up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The President's Wife | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Last week, The Twentieth Century Fund published Stuart Chase's brightly written answers under the title Where's the Money Coming From? ($1). Once Author Chase was a tub thumper for a planned economy run from the top by a general staff of technicians, with U.S. industry-and consumers- regimented at the bottom (A New Deal, The Economy of Abundance). Now he raises his voice just as lustily for the widest possible free enterprise. The Federal Government would in effect underwrite a free U.S. economy, keeping the lightest of fingers on the controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Compensatory and Mr. Chase | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Bambi (Bambi, Thumper, Flower, Faline, Friend Owl; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Nov. 2, 1942 | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

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