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Nellie Y. McKay, author of a well-regarded study of 20th-century writer Jean Tooter, recently decided against accepting the Harvard tenure offer--made last fall--and will continue teaching at Wisconsin, according to officials from both schools...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Literary Expert Nixes Afro-Am Tenure Offer | 10/4/1989 | See Source »

Blessed Mother Goose. Other critics scoff at the nearly total domination of kiddies' books by such animals as Saggy Baggy Elephant, Curious Little Owl, Peter the Sea Trout, Cottontail Rabbit, Brush Goat, Milk Goat, Cuter Tooter (a donkey), Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Little Brown Bear, The Happy Lion, Big Brown Bear, Mister Dog, Shy Little Kitten, Snuggly Bunny, Thidwick, the Big-Hearted Moose. Not that animals are new in fables, but now nearly all writers of children's stories seem to suggest that 1) the animal kingdom has become an animal democracy where no one would ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Grinch & Co. | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...with a calculating and untroubled eye. He had come to conquer. He got a job with a harness firm; eight years later he bought the owners out. He was elected to the city council, picked up a nickname, "The Red Snapper," and was known as a "real ring-tailed tooter" at either a fight or a frolic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Ring-Tailed Tooter | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...mayor. It was a rough, wild-eyed campaign. The ring-tailed tooter tooted against the "interlocking, circling, double-back, double-crossing interests." When thugs charged his meetings, he and the boys battled back. He was elected by 79 votes. From that day on he was the boss of Memphis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Ring-Tailed Tooter | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...time the press discovered him last week, Pfc. Chester J. ("The Stomach") Salvatori, a horn-tooter in an itinerant Army band, had landed in the Fort McPherson Post Hospital; he had been under observation there for a month. Hospital Commandant Colonel Burgh S. Burnett had an old-fashioned diagnosis: there was nothing abnormal about Salvatori's metabolism - it was really only his ego that needed nourishment. "He is an exhibitionist who puts on this eating show for the benefit of fellow soldiers." The Army had him eat alone, restricted his caloric intake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hungry Man | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

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