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They're hangin' on the ol' barb' wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Funeral March | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...Pack, his eyepatch fixed rakishly, like a pirate's, eager to outdrink, outgamble and outperform any other Clansman. Finally there were the unkindest cuts of all-from the Negro press, resentful of Davis' growing reputation for all-night all-white parties. "Howcum we never see Sammy Davis hangin' on the corner up here?" ran the cartoon in a Harlem paper. "You crazy, man? Sammy ain't colored no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: A Man of Many Selves | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...will have to do some reforming of U.S. operations as well. The first U.S. military mission in South Viet Nam dates from 1954, when Lieut. General John ("Iron Mike") O'Daniel helped organize the Vietnamese army for pro-Western President Ngo Dinh Diem. Next came Lieut. General Samuel ("Hangin' Sam") Williams, a leathery, irascible veteran who was convinced that when war came it would be a Korean-style invasion from the north with the Communists pouring tank columns and road-bound infantry divisions over the border. Williams was succeeded in 1960 by Lieut. General Lionel McGarr, who many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: To Eradicate the Cancer | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

...stirred. "Morning," I said cheerily, sitting down on the coffee table to lace my shoes. "Hangin...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Mother's Ruin | 2/25/1959 | See Source »

...piano has its anxious note. Some 50 winters have weathered Cagney hard, and he begins to wonder if his filly won't "stray off" when the "grass . . . gets a little too thin around here." She says she won't, but then they quarrel about the "hangin' fever" that sets in whenever Cagney sees a rustler. The girl runs away with a stable boy (Don Dubbins), but she soon comes back-it's such fun to bang on that piano. "Don't worry," Cagney comforts the boy, "a fellow doesn't die from his first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 30, 1956 | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

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