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...weeks Braithwaite's students met him with indifference or open hostility. They learned little, muttered about the "bleeding cheek" of the "black bastard" when he corrected them. Couples necked openly in the halls, sullenly waited as he passed to begin again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Slum School | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...Chicago Theater. Next morning, mildly conscience-stricken, Adler went around to explain. He walked in on a telephone conversation. "But I didn't send you a wire!" Lipstone was shouting. Then he saw the harmonica player. He covered the mouthpiece and asked: "Did you, you little bastard?" Adler nodded. Lipstone turned to the phone. "Yeah, that's right," he said. "The kid's great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Harmonica's Return | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...Said Hubert: "Hello, Jack. What's this I hear? Have you been cutting me up again?" Replied Kennedy with a smile: "Not me, Hubert. Why, just last night I told a group that you would make an excellent President-but you could never be elected." Grinned Hubert: "You bastard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAPITAL NOTES: Fears & Frustrations | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...good at both. His worst words are reserved not for the tough screws but for two unpleasant fellow prisoners called James and Dale: "I was no country Paddy from the middle of the Bog of Allen to be frightened to death by a lot of Liverpool seldom-fed bastards . . . No, be Jesus, I was from Russell Street, North Circular Road, Dublin, from the Northside where, be Jesus, the likes of Dale wouldn't make a dinner for them, where the whole of this pack of Limeys would be scruff-hounds would be et, bet, and threw up again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old School Noose | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...myself," he says cheerfully. Joe Louis and Billy Conn are among his cronies, and Carmen Basilic, onetime middleweight champion, is a hero. "Oh, that Basilio!" he enthuses. "Did you see the way his lamp went out in that last Robinson fight? Why, he's all guts. That little bastard will never go hungry as long as I'm eating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Smitty | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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