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...Tory Party. In 1950 Rab Butler, present Home Secretary, wrote to Macleod: "I've found that every time I've given you a harder job, you've done it better." By nature a New Tory, with no inbred love for the huntin', shootin', fishin' types of old-style Conservatives, Macleod has served brilliantly, effectively and aggressively as Minister of Health in 1952 and Minister of Labor in 1955, when he dealt so fairly and firmly with a rash of strikes that the left-wing Sunday Pictorial said that Macleod had won the "recognition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH AFRICA: The First of the Last | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

...down a big footprint," he sneers at his no-'count son (Anthony Franciosa). "Ah said. 'Heah. Step in. Fill it.' But you nevah did ... Go fishin', boy." And at his daughter he roars, "Wheah's mah crop? Whut follahs me?" When her elegant young man dawdles on the way to the altar, Welles tries to hog-tie her up with Ben Quick. "Ah am no tremblin' little rabbit full of smolderin' unsatisfah'd desires," screams Actress Woodward when Quick puts up his proposition. "[Sex] is not enough . . . not nearly enough!" But Quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 31, 1958 | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...latest, Goodbye, My Lady, the yanking is continuous. His hero is Skeeter, a likable 14-year-old who lives with his illiterate uncle in a shack on the edge of a Mississippi swamp. Life is simple to the point of vacuity-a little huntin', a little fishin', some wood cuttin' when the groceries run low. "Swamp sprout" that he is, Skeeter dreams mostly of a "li'l old" shotgun. Uncle Jesse has his dream too: he's going to get him a set of "Roebuckers" (false teeth) so he can "eat me a bait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Li'l OId Tearjerker | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...feller's at his finest when-out fishin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Catch a Fish | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...feller isn't thinkin' mean-out fishin': His thoughts are mostly good and clean-out fishin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Catch a Fish | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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