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...fast as his piano-playing won them. He yielded no quarter of fame to any of his now-famous contemporaries. "People believe Louis Armstrong originated scat [singing]," he said. "I must take that credit away from him." His blast at W. C. (St. Louis Blues) Handy as "a liar" who "cannot prove anything in music that he has created" endeared him to no one. His own flamboyant claim was that "I personally originated jazz in New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mister Jelly Roll | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...right, kid, you asked for it, and here it is. The ads are lying. I'm a liar. The picture stinks. You wanna know why the picture stinks? Because they took a story about a jockey by Ernie Hemingway. It was called "My Old Man," and they decided to make a picture out of it. Sure, sure, they got some good actors for it. They get Micheline Prelle, of the Rive Gauche. And Johnnie Garfield. He's a good actor, Danny. He's a great actor. And Orley Lindgren. They say he's good...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/6/1950 | See Source »

McCarthy had accused her of having been a member of 28 Communist fronts. The ex-judge, a greying and angry woman, seemed delighted at the chance to appear; having called McCarthy an "unmitigated liar," she disproved his accusations so thoroughly that the audience applauded her, and Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper apologetically said there was not "the least evidence" that she had been "in any way subversive or disloyal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: McCarthy at the Barricades | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

From Manhattan Dorothy Kenyon promptly blasted back at McCarthy as an "unmitigated liar," and asked the committee's permission to prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Battle of the Files | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...because there is a 'black priest-ridden government?' Surely you cannot deny that many men were told to go into Modena who had no legitimate business there . . ." The chamber exploded with cheers and boos. Togliatti cast aside his blue-serge-suit respectability, leaped to his feet, bellowed "Liar!" Other Communists surged up crying "Murderer! Assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Brawl | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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