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Burl Ives (Fri. 8 p.m., Mutual). Travelogues in folk music on the git-fiddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Aug. 18, 1947 | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Then came stage dressing. Hundreds of Old Gene's red-gallused wool hat boys invaded Atlanta to "see Hummon git it." After the legislature convened they jammed the galleries, carrying paper bags full of lunch. They jostled each other, talked loudly, and spat tobacco juice on the marble walls. They damned Governor Arnall. Bawled one: "Say, did you hear they give Arnall a medal at Noo Orleens for bein' the biggest nigger-lovin' governor Georgy ever had?" As the session dragged on, many took off their coats and slept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Strictly from Dixie | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...afraid; he is a man who has the confidence of his friends. Once when President Calvin Coolidge asked which legislator was in charge of a bill in the House and learned that it was "Joseph," Coolidge snapped: "Good. It will be done." Joe is a git-up-and-git, self-made, authentic small-town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Mr. Speaker | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Burl Ives (Fri. 8 p.m., Mutual). Start of a weekly show, with new & old ballads plus the Ives git-fiddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Oct. 14, 1946 | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

Then "the big man said 'Git them bitches, too.' A little fellow wearing Army shoes, clothes and an Army cap held a shotgun on me. One man said, 'Let's shoot him too.' The big man thought it over. He asked me twice, 'Do you recognize anybody?' I said, 'No, you shouldn't shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: The Best People Won't Talk | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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