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...goin' steady"); Andy's first meeting with Kingfish- played by Gosden (Andy: "Say, scusee me for protrudin', stranger, but ain't you got ahold of my watch chain?" Kingfish: "Your watch chain? Well, so I does. How you like dat! One of dese solid gold cuff links of mine musta hooked on your watch chain dere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: 10,000th Performance | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

TIME . . . undoubtedly prepared two covers for the post-election issue. What did the other one look like? FRANK B. CUFF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1952 | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...built up a reputation as a speaker. However, his off-the-cuff efforts proved to be full of ballooning sentences, and his speeches from prepared texts tended to be wooden. At one point he threw out all prepared texts and-while his advisers watched him as nervously as if he were a time bomb-made some major speeches off the cuff. That way his sincerity came through, but Ike was not used to the split-minute timing necessary for television, sometimes rambled on, made some blunders. Ike finally settled on a prepared text in a looseleaf notebook from which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Man of Experience | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...Beacon, after assuring itself that Squire had a good reputation for veracity and reliability, decided to issue its state-wide call for a saucer-watch. To spread the alarm further, the Beacon wanted the Associated Press state wire to carry it. The A.P. stuffily refused, giving the off-the-cuff explanation that flying saucers, like a golfer's hole in one, should be verified by at least two people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Wind Is Up in Kansas | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

Treasure Chest. In Yonkers, N.Y., when police asked him where he had hidden the jewelry he stole, Clayton Cuff, 20, was speechless, gasped for breath, coughed up a $425 diamond ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 1, 1952 | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

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