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...soda, but after 17 years on the wagon, Teddy abstained. "I still feel bitter," he said, "but I got to dissipate it. It isn't any good that way." In a tawdry North LaSalle Street walkup, Vera Walush thumbed through a deck of cards and observed: "I got nothin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Without Apology | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

Admirers of Pearl Bailey will not be surprised to hear that she stops the show with two of Morton Gould's tunes, "Nothin' for Nothin'" and "There Must Be Something Better Than Love." She talks, moves, sings, and dances as if she were perpetually tipsy. It's always a pleasure to watch her perform, because she makes even commonplace material come alive...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 1/19/1950 | See Source »

...Peter Johnson Jr. of Harvard ($500) dived into unproductive mathematics. Third Prizewinner: John C. Cook of Pennsylvania State College ($250). But Babson is not downhearted. He remembers the last time he talked with Thomas Alva Edison, who died in 1931. Said Edison: "Babson, remember you don't know nothin' about nothin'. You've got to find something that insulates from gravity. I think it's coming about from some alloy." There are plenty of alloys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Trouble with Gravity | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

Grinned bespectacled Harvey Brooks, who is still playing "a very quiet piano" in a neighborhood bar on the corner of Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard and Western Avenue: "Just like finding $100,000 . . . L'il Bird isn't nothin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Salady Days | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...Fort Benning, Ga., where the new philosophy of training was being experimentally used on Regular Army recruits, one young soldier tardily said: "The noncoms were polite when they first started off, but they hadda get rough or nothin' would be done. If they didn't act that way there would not be no Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Gently, Sergeant, Gently | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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