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Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, onetime fogball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, beginning his new job as a TV newscaster for the New York Yankees, said that he would go right on talking "same as I do back in Arkansas." What about listeners in Brooklyn? "If they cain't understand me, we're even. I cain't understand them, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 17, 1950 | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...criminal escape story. I offer this quote "His eyes followed her without moving his head as a man watches an art trying to crawl out of a glass." As for James Chance's "Home is the Sailor," suffice it to say that a combination of James M. Cain ("Mark lit another Camel . . .") and James Joyce (". . . casting a net around Harvard-Yale Andover Exeter Groton Amherst Williams in Doe speramus.") is appalling...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 4/15/1950 | See Source »

Flynn must combat the narrow-mindedness of the cattle ranchers, led in spirit by Alexis Smith who believes. "This here has been cattle land for as long as I kin remember . . . we cain't give up the fine things that our fathers and grandfathers fought for." When she further explains that sheep should not be allowed in the area because they tear out the grass by the roots, and because they smell bad, her position becomes clear: discrimination against animals because of the way they eat and the way they smell...

Author: By Herbert S. Myers, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

Harry Pulliam Cain, Republican from Washington, 44, tall, lean, friendly-and a lightweight. As early as 1947, he urged withdrawal of occupation forces from Germany, and an end to the denazification program. On occasion, he subjects the Senate to hammy theatrics and wild filibusters. Some of his Senate colleagues would be inclined to rate him as no more than a noisy nonentity if he were not something more bothersome-the real-estate lobby's warmest friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE SENATE'S MOST EXPENDABLE | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Brother's Keeper. In Sydney, Australia, James Cain was charged with using indecent language to Police Constable Ronald Abel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 23, 1950 | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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