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...Cotton Ed got so interested in his work (denouncing New Deal regimentation) that he skipped a paragraph, turned the page of his script and came upon the middle of an entirely unrelated sentence about gasoline rationing. Twenty interminable, script-shuffling seconds later listeners on 118 stations heard his frustrated bellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cotton Ed Blows a Fuse | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Women are still firmly excluded from McSorley's. Once a Greenwich Village feminist, disguised as a man, ordered an ale from Proprietor Bill McSorley. She downed first the ale, then her hair. Then she scrammed. Said the amazed McSorley between a moan and a bellow: "She was a woman! She was a goddamn woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bowery Botanist | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...Bellow Friend: I read in the N.Y. paper that some of you russians want some of we Americans to write to you over there. I would like to write to some one there as a good will gesture toward a brave race of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Dear Red ... | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...Impresario Salmaggi gives his public its money's worth. His 28-piece orchestra drones out Verdi's melodies like possessed hurdy-gurdies. His tenors and sopranos bellow lustily. His triumphal scenes contain not only singers and ballet dancers but live donkeys and horses, sometimes elephants and camels. In a fit of showmanship a few years ago he signed up Jack Johnson, Negro heavyweight emeritus, chained him to an Egyptian chariot, plastered Manhattan with billboards advertising "Jack Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Poor Man's Impresario | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

Connie dashed down the runway with her engines in full cry, dropped her bellow to a mutter, stopped, turned around again. Smoke plumed from one of her engine nacelles. But fire there meant less danger than it had meant in older ships. In each fireproof engine housing were 16 thermostatic fire warnings and an extinguishing system to put carbon dioxide just where it was needed. The blaze, from a backfire, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Army & Navy, Jan. 18, 1943 | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

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