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...date has yet been set yet for this year's Sadie Hawkins Day, that highly moveable feast on which Marryin' Sam will obligingly hitch a fleet-hoofed gal to any hapless bachelor she can catch. Finally, at Daisy Mae's insistence, Cartoonist Al Capp hisself makes a rare appearance in the strip to schedule the prenuptial foot race for Nov. 26. Snorts a disgusted Li'l Abner: "Ha!-Any day is okay when an-ugh! -Dogpatch maiden kin ketch-sob!-a Dogpatch bachelor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dogpatch Is Ready for Freddie | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...Centre in Landover, Md., against Spain's Alfredo Evangelista. "I think I'll get into the ring and knock him down, but I just don't know," he said with uncharacteristic modesty. "He's 22 and I'm 35 and he's killed hisself training. It's exactly like Rocky. "Or so he hopes. · The young lady from Ketchum, Idaho, is dusting off some old tricks. Margaux Hemingway, 22, is still busy earning her million dollars posing in the snow for Faberge's new Babe commercials. But what she really wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 18, 1977 | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...come dat 'plies, Nat? Figger a white man treat you right you gwine feel white-assed. Naw suh! Young Massah, old massah sweet-talk me, I jes' feel black-assed th'ough and th'ough. Figger when I gets to heaven like you say I is, do good Lord hisself even He gwine make old Hark feel black-assed, standin' befo' de golden throne. Dere He is, white as snow, givin' me a lot of sweet talk and me feelin' like a black-assed angel...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: The Outrage of Benevolent Paternalism | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...magnolia-and-plantation fiction to come out of the South since Marse Robert surrendered at Appomattox. Her passel of lil ole psychopathic dimwits seems to have been spawned in a high-rent district of Tobacco Road. When Pappy Ingles, the hard-drinkin', ruttin' hero, tries to kill hisself by knocking his punkin haid against the marble top off'n a dresser, the humor turns as purplish black as a ripe fox grape. Trouble is, the author is danged serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: Oct. 14, 1966 | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

...Well, as it appeared to me, he was standing up and resting against the left window sill, taking positive aim, and fired his last shot. As I calculate, a couple of seconds. He drew the gun back from the window as though he was drawing it back to assure hisself that he hit his mark, and then he disappeared." Brennan stopped a police officer, gave a description of the man: slender, about 5 ft. 10 in., in his early 30s. The description was flashed to all Dallas patrol cars. Brennan later picked Lee Harvey Oswald out of a police lineup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

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