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Taken aback, Roberts replied: "I am but a child of God." But the press pounced on him. SALVATION CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN, headlined one paper. The national weekly Truth called him "at best a big blabbermouth." Sydney's Daily Telegraph demanded that he be "sent packing." Reporters discovered that Roberts had checked in at Sydney's swanky Glen Ascham Hotel under an assumed name. Said Roberts: "Christ has no objection to prosperity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Trouble for Oral | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...Albert ("Blabbermouth") Bates, 57, serving a life sentence for the 1933 kidnaping of Oklahoma Oilman Charles Urschel, died in Alcatraz prison without ever blabbing where he had hidden his $100,000 in ransom money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jul. 19, 1948 | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...away with a candid vein of comment which is unprecedented in radio. Via a small-boy character (which helps), Bergen manages a titillating form of malice-without-malice. To judge by his audiences, it is all hugely satisfying to the U.S. public. Charlie called Gossipist Louella Parsons an "old blabbermouth," while confiding in an aside that "everything will be all over town tomorrow." He referred to Emily Post as "a vulture for culture" and dismissed her with: "It's been a charming evening. By the way, Miss Emily, you don't have a toothpick on you?" He asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cultivated Groaner | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

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