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...Some listeners' sales resistance collapsed from sheer exhaustion. Explained one: "She was getting you so on it, I couldn't stand it no more. I said, 'Dammit, I'm going to telephone right in and that is the end of it. I'm going to bed and forget about it.' My husband said to me, 'You are not going to go to bed until you get on that damn phone and give the bond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Kate's Appeal | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

Bearded, unforgiving Boers, who have spent their lives fighting bearded, undeviating Slim Jannie, still do not like to hear of him beside an English princess, or playing the international game. But now they pay him the ultimate tribute: "We hate his guts, but dammit, he's still an Afrikaner who can teach the uitlanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Holist from the Transvaal | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...retired, dammit," says leonine old Amadeo Peter Giannini, chairman of the board of California's huge Bank of America, whenever reporters note that he still bosses his 478-branch colossus.-But 73-year-old A. P. still goes to work in his walnut-paneled San Francisco office every day; he has been "retiring" ever since he was 31, when he decided that he had earned enough in his stepfather's fruit and vegetable business to take life easy. Actually no one believes his beloved bank will be run by anyone else so long as A. P. can draw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: A. P.'s Team | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...news from the four million corners of the earth. Your staff of researchers can come up with answers to make John Kieran chew his nails. You can feed congressmen, governors, the FBI, even F.D.R. with the most esoteric dope. You can swing public opinion and sway private enterprise, but dammit all, TIME, when you print an article like "From Mud to Melody"* you are showing us your soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 21, 1943 | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...special greeting to the doctor who has referred the patient-he opened the abdomen of the patient, another woman. Then Dr. Erdmann proceeded to probe about in her vitals for a long-in his case a sensationally long-20 minutes. Then he looked up brightly and confessed without embarrassment, "Dammit all, I can't seem to get oriented here." Vanity Fair ran a full-page spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Not So Long Ago | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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