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World War II: Volunteered for combat duty as an air-force lieutenant (navigator), fled France after the Nazi victory, was caught in Morocco and sentenced by Vichy to six years in prison for "dese-tion," but made a hacksaw-and-bedsheet escape to the underground and then to the De Gaulle forces in England. Made bombing raids over France and Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FRANCE'S NEW PREMIER | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...Serve dem right! ... All dese big puff-up high-color people-Ah never sorry when . . . they get tek down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guiana Belle | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...been 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 »

...Bout coupla monts ago business started gettin' stinkin'. We was losin' money, but fast. I gotta do somethin' to goose da place up. Now I'm a sport lover, see. So I figure maybe dese guys is goin' to hockey games or fights, an' I say, why not bring hockey or fights here, so guys can see sports and drink atta same time. So I buy dese gadgets. Slump in business stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Barrooms with a View | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...date textbooks. A $38,000,000 building program is still largely in the blueprint stage, and schoolhouses are dangerously decrepit (said Mayor William O'Dwyer: "Those old Civil War firetraps are ghastly"). Above all, parents don't want their boys & girls to pick up the "dese-&-dose" accent of many students, or the morals and manners of "Dead End Kids" who are often the leaders in some of the city's schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Inside Man | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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