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...triple, the Stooges clowned their way through a seemingly endless series of quickie flickies-most of them on a par with the early Punchdrunk, which told of a waiter, a prizefighter at heart, who wrecked the joint every time he heard Pop Goes the Weasel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Refinished Antiques | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...Wishie Weasel Head got mixed up with an old lady at Heart Butte," read the item in the weekly Browning, Mont. Glacier Reporter (circ. 1,200). "So the old woman pick up a jug of Gallo and whack him over the head and was soaked in wine. He was hospitalized for several days so don't bother an old lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Word from Weasel Necklace | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Over the last four years, Reporter readers have learned to expect such gamy fare from the paper's correspondent in Heart Butte, a tiny Indian community (pop. 250) hunkered in the hills of Montana's vast Blackfeet Reservation. The Heart Butte correspondent, 65-year-old Weasel Necklace, never lets them down. Writing under his other name, John Tatsey, he produces a column so lively, if ungrammatical, that it is widely reprinted. Sample Tatseyisms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Word from Weasel Necklace | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...worries no more. Most of Tatsey's neighbors-Mrs. Maggie Chief All Over, Francis B. (for Bull) Shoe, George Running Wolf Jr. and Sr.-complain only when they are ignored in his column. And the few who do mind Correspondent Tatsey's frank exposures get nowhere with Weasel Necklace, who doubles as a policeman on the 1,252,000-acre reservation. "I just tell them what's what," says Columnist-Cop Tatsey. "And that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Word from Weasel Necklace | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...present-day terms, the story tells of a Massachusetts state senator, a Republican of rather low I.Q., whose son has driven him into debt from frequenting Lincoln Downs too often. In order to weasel out of his debts, the father (performed with virtuosity by Daniel Garrison, complete with belches and burps) enrolls after hours at a fly-by-night school in Boston, in the hope of mastering legal quibbles and learning how to persuade a jury that red is really green. He flunks out, though, and forces his son (cleanly played by Marsh McCall) to matriculate in his stead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Clouds | 4/11/1959 | See Source »

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