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...Cannes, Columnist Elsa Maxwell helped Producer Jack Warner clean up at chemin de fer. "I was sitting . . . by his side . . . and I started to move," wrote Elsa. "He showed the only signs of superstition I've ever seen in him. 'Don't uncross your legs, honey,' Jack warned." She said she stuck it out for an hour and Jack won a million francs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Angles | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...figures he can make a trade, a strictly no cash deal, before the season opens. Dis C1878 guy sez Yale gotta football player name a Wayne Johnson a couple a years ago from Harvard. Maybe he wants a trade a scholar, one of them chemistry fellas fer instance, fer a new fullback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Will Swap Mattress for Bunk At Yale, Wellesley, Wothavu | 1/20/1948 | See Source »

There were still some hurdles for Fer-jencik to take. Kempny and Bugar could not be jailed until they were stripped of parliamentary immunity. This Ferjencik called upon the National Coalition to do. The Communist coalition members could be counted on to agree. The non-Communist majority in the Government was up a tree. If they gave in, they would play into Communist hands. If they did not, they would precipitate a political split which would help nobody but the Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: The Mixture as Before | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

Several visitors to Gee's Bend, Ala. were talking to an old Negro, and making heavy weather of it. The old man spotted a friend and called out: "Mistuh Johnson, Mistuh Johnson! Come on over hyar and understan' 'em fer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Walk, Not Run | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Lillian also knew some of the less Freudian folk in Willowspring-honest fellows who reached halting conclusions about politics and life. They said, in what Novelist Howard believes to be Pennsylvania dialect: "Maybe this here givern-givern-givernment of the United States was found-foundered by the people fer the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exotic Pennsylvania | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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