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"False Representative." In 1946, Sadie claims, she was nearly ruined by a magazine article which reported that her Brooklyn apartment was jampacked with program loot, and that she netted an average $35 a week in prize money. For six months, she moans, she couldn't get on a single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Pro | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

After the fight, Roughneck Rocky Graziano swaggered to his dressing room, wearing a big grin. It contrasted with the bellicose look of his tousled mop of hair and two-day growth of beard. The champ dunked his swollen hands in a hot pail of water and said: "We gettin'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rooky's Road Back | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

In the jumbled gloom of the storeroom, a gentle Negro complained of people's incurable acquisitiveness. "They think because they work for U.N. they can get everything. Just 'Gimme, gimme' all day long." In a velvet-draped chamber, visitors admired a model of the future U.N. headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: What Sammy's Nickel Bought | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Bill Mauldin's sardonic, unshaven Willie once summed up his attitude to the reckless flood of U.S. decorations in World War II. Said Willie: "Just gimme a coupla aspirin. I already got a Purple Heart."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: More Fruit Salad | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

One block west of Ebbets Field, at the Left Field Bar & Grill, a grim conversation was in progress. One voice said: "Dixie Walker ain't hittin', huh?" A dime bounced on the bar and a voice replied: "He'll hit ... but whaddya get from Durocher? He ain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Lip | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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