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...Build Us... O My Congress." "There is a delusion," he said, "which causes America to sink large quantities of money into our American rivers, and that is the toot of a steamboat whistle. Somehow it is believed that if we can only have a steamboat whistle tooting through the heart of the corn belt there will be enormous riches . . ." He was attacking the feasibility of authorizing $250 million more for the celebrated Pick-Sloan development on the Missouri River. Said Fair Dealer Douglas: "I think it is a very serious question whether the United States of America needs a nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Steamboat Comin1 Roun' de Bend | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Tits on a Toot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1950 | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...diameter, which until recently had graced the West Coast steamship Yale. Now Yaleman Bertie McCormick ('03) had acquired it for a new and loftier mission: to warn Chicagoland of an atomic-bomb raid. Before leaving for an Arizona vacation, the colonel had left orders for a test toot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Whistle That Didn't | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...Whiffenpoofs of 1950 are great. For about 15 minutes last Friday night they proved this at the annual Harvard-Yale Glee Club Concert in New Haven. Zipping through such songs as "Toot Toot Tootsic," "Saloon," "Baby Sister Blues," and "Crusin' Around," they brought life to an otherwise ordinary concert with their relaxed, informal, and technically fine style...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

After rallying and setting off on an entertainment tour of veterans hospitals--an opportunity to dub in "Sonny Boy" and "Toot-Toot-Tootsie" (among others) on the sound track--Jolson collapses again. Miss Hale, of course, appears at his bedside. Her lines are poor--she too has to spend her time telling Jolson to relax--but her performance is enough to make her a leading candidate for the worst actress of the year. Unfortunately she stays around to marry Jolson and manage his life...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

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