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...great one for race pride," says a Negro girl (Ruby Dee) who works for white folks. "It's jes' that I cain't use it much in my line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Uncle Tomfoolery | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

Harry: The breaker is Harry, Sophie. I jes' tuned ya in. Could this be the Golden Verce of Sout' Levittown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: What Citizens Have Wrought | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...than JC. When he decides to steal her car and keep it until she returns the money, he describes the move "as a last recourse to retaliatory capability, humanely applied as persuasion rather than force per se." Kitten, however, knows this liberty cabbage for the sauerkraut it is: "Extorshun . . . jes like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trial by Doxy | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

...Godoy, 59, a cavalryman with a folksy style. "This palace is the home of the nation," he chatted at a press conference, "but do not come too late at night, as I may be sleeping." Army Commander Nicolas Lindley was named Prime Minister. Air Force General Jesús Melgar, the new Agriculture Minister, quickly scored with consumers by persuading butchers to knock down meat prices. The generals reaffirmed their intention to hold a simon-pure election next June. There were even stories that APRA, with which the generals have been feuding for three decades, had agreed to a modus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Settling In | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...Maris only shake their heads sadly; and then Mantle, with a wisdom that few fans have suspected him of concealing, gives Hutch a few pointers on the great game of life. "Hutch," he drawls stolidly, "yew lied. Now son, yew cain't make a foul ball faar, jes' by movin' the baselines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Baseball-batty | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

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