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...archconservative. At the other end of the spectrum, both ideologically and temperamentally, is Martha Jean, "the Queen," Detroit's 1,000-watt soul sister. "You are livin' with the Queen," she tells her mostly black audience on WJLB. "And that's pretty good livin', I betcha. All you got to do is be touched by the Queen and everything will be all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The New Talk Jockeys | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

...betcha that 25 years from now you won't be able to tell them from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 13, 1967 | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...Betcha didn't know Elvis Presley was 31, Well, he's not, but he will be tomorrow That's not why there won't be a CRIMSON, though. We're taking the night off to celebrate Millard Filmore's 166th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crying in the Chapel | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...What if the land is remote (and no more fertile than tracts being peddled by Mato Grosso State for 35? an acre)? One day the wilderness would bloom. Said Realtor Cage, nobly: "I'm going to work hard and pay back everybody that lost anything in Texas. You betcha, and the first people I'm going to pay back are those little old widows-yessiree, I'm going to call them right up to the head of the line." Cage's wife, who wears mink despite the heat, is staying by her hard-working husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Financiers at Work | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Next day, Crosby & Co. moved over to Monterey Peninsula, an easier course, and then to spectacular Pebble Beach for the final 18. On the first tee, a kid yelled, "Betcha a quarter," as Bing began his backswing. Without pausing, Bing yelled back, "A quarter what?" and drove the ball out 230 yards. Among the pros, the pacesetter was slender Lloyd Mangrum, with Hogan and Bobby Locke dangerously close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bing's Party | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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