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Died. Harry McElhone, 67, elfin proprietor of Harry's New York Bar, 5 Rue Daunou, Paris; of heart disease; in Garches, France. "Just tell the taxi driver Sank Roo Doe Noo," said Harry, and multitudes of parched, unilingual Americans followed his directions. Taken to fame in the '20s by a quaffeé society that included Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harry's was the cradle of the International Bar Flies, a loosely knit organization ring-led by the late Columnist O. O. (for Oscar Odd) Mclntyre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 16, 1958 | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

Announcer on Radio--And now we introduce a noo group being heard on the radio for the first time. It's a gang of seventeen-year-old kids from Phillips Academy called the BROMES. They're gonna sing, "Baby, You Jes' Wait...

Author: By F. W. Byron jr., | Title: The Walls of Jericho | 1/7/1958 | See Source »

Steve Allen Show (Mon.-Fri. 12 noo. CBS). A resourceful comic and famous guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jul. 16, 1951 | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...Hummon git it." After the legislature convened they jammed the galleries, carrying paper bags full of lunch. They jostled each other, talked loudly, and spat tobacco juice on the marble walls. They damned Governor Arnall. Bawled one: "Say, did you hear they give Arnall a medal at Noo Orleens for bein' the biggest nigger-lovin' governor Georgy ever had?" As the session dragged on, many took off their coats and slept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Strictly from Dixie | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...literate Eastern fringes, there lived younder in Tennessee a lovable old man with a tongue like a rat-tailed file and a face so hard they called him Old Hickory. He was a great hero. In the War of 1812, he licked the British in the Battle of Noo Orleens (some time after peace had been made). Everybody loved him because he had come up the hard way from nothing to a plantation and owning slaves, but he never forgot the COMMON MAN. Sitting on his plantation porch of an evening, he would say: "I still love the COMMON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Deal | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

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