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...Another fella deserves credit and where would I be without him? Phew! He can give me a job in the outfield and he can catch, too [Elston Howard, first Negro ever to play with the Yankees]. Good kid, too, if they leave him alone and stop fighting the Civil War all over and they almost ruined him. He's good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Fella | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...they leaped with him out of a Flying Boxcar over Munsan, plunged down to earth with paratroopers of the Army's 187th Regimental Combat Team. (As McPheron plunged into the prop blast, listeners heard him count, "1,000 . . . 2,000 . . . 3,000" then, as the chute cracked open: "Phew! It takes the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Under the Gun | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...Phew! In Stockbridge, Mass., Mrs. John F. Decker argued that no woman should be expected to put up with a man who kept six skunks in the coalbin. She got the divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...they lived on coconuts for three days, then swam to a larger island, where friendly natives found them the next day, carried back to the Navy base an S O S scratched on a coconut. Back in Hyannis, Mass., informed of his son's rescue, father Joseph commented: "Phew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Losers | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...they won't fall into high-toned scientific lingo that would baffle the average listener. Inveterate ad libber is impish Dr. Wood, who likes to preface thoughtful discussions of taste with such of his verses as: "Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet and skunks are-phew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bright Quiz | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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