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...wanted to sing. When Alberta was still a child, she ran away to Chicago, where, she had heard, singers could make $10 a week. She was helped by a friend of the family and, after making a pest of herself, was finally given a chance to sing at Dago Frank's, a saloon where prostitutes and pimps hung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Good Tunes from an Old Violin | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

...have been as bad as she says she was, but at Dago Frank's Alberta Hunter learned about singing and everything else. "There was a woman there, Tack Annie, who was one of the world's greatest pickpockets. She looked like a horse with a hat on, the ugliest woman I ever saw in my life! The girls taught me how to look after myself so that I was hip when fellows would come to me and tell me they were going to buy me clothes and make me a prostitute. I could laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Good Tunes from an Old Violin | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

...going to demand a new contract that gives me some independence. If he fires me, he'll never live it down, with these fans." He sounded surer of himself now, more confident that he had an edge in the battle with the owner. "A little Dago like me fixed his ass. If I get fired, I've still got something inside of me that will beat him. I'll come back and haunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nice Guys Always Finish . . . ? | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...litany of the Bunkerisms that have won All in the Family the respect of rednecks and the laughter of liberals. To Archie (Carroll O'Connor), the proudly bigoted head of the Bunker household, England is a "fag country," his wife Edith a "dingbat," the Renaissance master Michelangelo "that Dago artist," and Women's Lib a "dreaded disease." As for the theory of evolution, Archie tells his son-in-law Mike (Rob Reiner): "We didn't crawl out from under no rocks; we didn't have no tails, we didn't come from monkeys, you atheistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Scorn Along with Archie | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...Spanish-American War. When he is not talking about his wife Helga, his successful milk business, or how he spent Dec. 7, 1941, arranging an abortion for his son's girl friend, he keeps drifting back to the days when he and his "bunkies" whipped the "Dago" in Cuba. But not before he overcame his cowardice in a rib ald send-up of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage. It is a ripe ad dition to the sanitized exuberance dished out by T.R. in The Rough Riders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Diamond in the Fluff | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

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