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...without script for 15 minutes. Sometimes he announces that there is no news worth mentioning, advises people not to buy a paper that day. From politics, war, or a headlined disaster he may slip into a spiel on Southern cooking: "Where you go'n' to find better cookin' than in your own Virginia? Provided, of course, you use enough corn bread, and enough bacon in cookin' your vegetables." Even some Richmonders who profess to be fed up with his sagelike utterances and sweet-talkin' voice admit that they listen anyhow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Virginians | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...picture of Harold Stassen on the cover. In Portland, Dewey refused a drink of bourbon offered by a local politico, ducked out for his own bottle of Scotch. Commented a local columnist: "Out West here, podner, men have been shot for refusing to drink out of the common cookin' likker bottle and then showing up with their own pizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Out West, Podner | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...professor of thermodynamics taking a tacit for 24. We're clearing the joint of counterpoint, but we'll be back next black at 18:30. So have the body by the voice box, will ya? Keep ya chin up, good will toward men, and here's cookin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prisoners of WOV | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...What's cookin', sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Yeah | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...What's cookin', sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Yeah | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

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