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...same phone and got up a petition to ban her from the office, lest she somehow harm an employee undergoing chemotherapy. Some law firms have been making discreet inquiries of doctors, wondering whether it is legal to fire a worker for having herpes. Almost anywhere, at any time, some prattler is bound to say, "Herpes is a very trendy disease, isn't it?" as if the sufferer contracted it to achieve stylishness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Scarlet Letter | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

...hobble-de-hoyden Tuesday night romps on NBC-TV's Jack Paar Show, doughty Prattler Elsa Maxwell. 74. has merrily trampled and spiked the foibles, veneers and peculiarities of such vulnerable folk as Elvis Presley, Billionaire J. Paul Getty. Jayne Mansfield, "Fatso" Farouk, Linda Christian and many another moving target. But not until one evening a fortnight ago did the gaily irresponsible Elsa turn her gusty gall on one of the few name-and-I-droppers in the world who, pound for pound, can outgossip and outfeud her-Walter Winchell. The battle between the titans of Babel began when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Titans of Babel | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

With Tony ("Are Yuh Listenin'?") Wons absent from radio poetizing, the coziest parlor voice in U. S. radio nowadays is that of Ted (Between the Bookends) Malone, sympathizer, poesy reader, prattler extraordinary. When Ted Malone comes visiting, the average U. S. woman-of-the-house finds herself as politely helpless as when the gadabout from down the street calls. "May I come in?" asks Ted. "I see you are alone. . . . Now I'll just take this rocker here by the radio and chat awhile. . . . What lovely new curtains. . . . Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Pilgrim | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...they go ah-h-h-h-h-h-h!" For the last five years barrel-bellied, beer-bibbing Tony Galento, a New Jersey saloonkeeper, has made this boast to anyone within earshot. And for five years everyone within earshot has smiled at the pasty, pudgy little prattler and his self-appraised ability to knock out the best prizefighter in the world. He looked as unfit for the prize ring as a dachshund for a greyhound race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gallant Galento | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...right. Never do a thing which you will be ashamed, if need be, to confess. If you are true to yourself, you will never know what shame means. Make up your mind to be something, whatever that something may be. And be, if you can, something more than a prattler of stupid advice like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 1/26/1877 | See Source »

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