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...know why I did it. It worked! Along with my South American passport, I guess they weren't prepared psychologically to find TIME in my pocket. They bleated: "Po-anglee-sky," and then began to jabber among themselves that perhaps I had something to do with the Americans. TIME had done the trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 29, 1954 | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...Breakers," now unoccupied but open to sightseers, which cost $5,000,000 and boasted 70 rooms (33 of them for servants). Newport's sauciest social queen was Mrs. Stuyvesant ("Mamie") Fish, who relished the Texas Guinan approach to guests. "Howdy-do, howdy-do," she would jabber at new arrivals. "Make yourselves at home. And believe me, there is no one who wishes you were there more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Condemned Playgrounds | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...recently as two years ago, Lightweight Champion Ike Williams was respected for his shifty style, if not for his fighting heart. But when Williams lost his title last year to a Harlem unknown named Jimmy Carter, lightweight prestige slumped. Last week Champion Carter, 28 and still a colorless jabber, put his low-rated title on the line for the third time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Asaltador de Gigantes | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...Luckily, the bulk of Between Sittings is not about what Jo thought and did between sittings, at all. It is about the hell of a life he led cooping pawky big shots into a corner long enough to model them-and the fine time he had listening to them jabber away, once he had softened them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Face Values | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...east of downtown Los Angeles, armed with a silver-plated shovel, he broke ground for a new $25 million soap and food products plant. Lever Bros., he said, would spend another $30 million on expansion and modernization elsewhere. That would make a total bet of $55 million that the jabber-jitterers were talking jabberwocky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Jabber Jitters | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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