Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before Hurricane Edna swooped past New York, another, better-known phenomenon whooshed into Manhattan: Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe landed from an airliner and, said the tabloids, the damage, compared to Edna's, was inestimable. Obviously relishing every wolf call and whistle, Marilyn spent her time between a few days of picture-shooting (The Seven Year Itch) at a few nightclubs and Broadway shows, and with a few hundred avid autograph-hunting youngsters...
...Wolf of Man." U Nu is a man of rough and unfamiliar plainness. His head is round, his mouth seems rather large for his face, and his brown eyes fix visitors with peculiar intentness. His manner is sedate; his piety is apparent, and sincere. He betrays no concern that a Rangoon magazine is currently serializing a novel called Man the Wolf of Man (written in 1943) with a remarkable autobiographical preface by its author...
...Sweet Song. In Pasadena, Calif., Mrs. Olga Maltsberger, 50, owner of a cat that responds only to a wolf whistle, reported unhappily that a man appeared at her door when she was whistling at 2 a.m., insisted that the call...
...MAGIC PICTURES, by Marcel Aymé (Harper; $2.50), is all about a wonderful farm where pigs have wings, the wolf who ate Little Red Ridinghood goes vegetarian, and two little French girls named Delphine and Marinette share all their secrets with the animals and none with their parents. Aymé, a skilled satirical taxidermist of the French middle class (The Barkeep of Blémont, The Miraculous Barber), brings his farm animals to life so wisely and winningly that he is now being hailed in France as the best fabulist since La Fontaine...
...then and now is that Locarno was a compact between men of good will-a pact with the democratic Weimar Republic of Germany, not with the Germany of Hitler. A Locarno pact now-with Malenkov and Mao-would be like a pact with Hitler. A promise to defend a wolf if he is attacked by the sheep means little to the wolf. And it just confuses the sheep about the real nature of the wolf...