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Tennessee's aged (81) Kenneth McKellar, who sometimes appears to be dozing at his front-row desk, snapped up like an aroused tomcat. Did the Senate mean to disregard the experience of his committee, which had approved all of these fine projects? By a vote of 47 to 28, the Senators said certainly not. Big Paul Douglas had lost again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Hold Up a Minute | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...week's end, Publisher Bryan had cheering news for column readers. After interviewing numerous applicants, she had taken on another young tomcat with the same tiger markings and haunting eyes as her late staffer. His name: Scoopy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death of a Columnist | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...story doesn't greatly matter: a bluffing old Confederate veteran (capably hammed by Roland Culver) is deceived into fronting for an itinerant salesman (Patric Knowles) of wildcat oil shares. The wildcat is also a tomcat, and Veronica Lake, the prettiest of the colonel's three daughters, falls for him. The second daughter (Oklahoma's Mary Hatcher) sings a good deal, and the youngest (Mona Freeman) is on hand with wisecracks. There is also a cook (Pearl Bailey), and a comic swain (Billy De Wolfe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...tells about a tomcat, for instance, that goes to a bingo game at 7:45 every Monday evening. This reminds Eckstein that no one has found the mechanism which gives men (or animals) the ability to measure time. When he tells about the sleeping habits of his canaries (fagged-out females in the mating season sleep the soundest), he is reminded of another mystery: What is sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Off-Beat Professor | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...favorites that for the first time in 43 years no place or show betting was allowed. But, mud or no mud, as the field of six (smallest in 41 years) thundered by the grandstand into the first turn, Coaltown was out in front, bouncing along like a big brown tomcat. He had never been beaten in his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Arcaro Picks a Winner | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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