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...your picture of Frankie with Jo Davidson [TIME, April 22]. You of course selected the worst picture you could find of him so you could get off your quip: "Sinatra and his big bow tie . . . didn't look half so much like a heart-leaping popular idol as 63-year-old Davidson and his little one." I was not amused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1946 | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Your magazine's quip at Protestants' ambiguity is typical of TIME'S pro-Catholic prejudice. It is becoming tiresome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1946 | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Bevin displays little humor and geniality around the office ("Life is Real, Life is Ernest" soon became a common quip). He likes a drink and a chat, but is pathetically awkward at making friends. Nevertheless he won underpaid Foreign Office hearts by going to bat for a general salary raise. When a friend suggested that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Daiton, might object, Bargainer Bevin roared: "I'll take the worthy doctor by his pants and swing him around my head till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNO: Great Commoner | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...join later) must try to adopt realistic budgets, stabilize prices and wages, bring exports & imports into reasonable balance-all factors affecting the purchasing power of currency. If they succeed, the Fund can help them. If they fail, the Fund offers no remedy, and Tory M.P. Oliver Lyttelton's quip will hold true: "It is not the least good putting up a mosquito net to try to keep out a charge of wild elephants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Toward Stability | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...some infraction). For a long list of Class B offenses (from "hair not properly cut" to "window, throwing articles from") midshipmen sweat out hours of extra duty drills. For a shorter list of Class A offenses (malingering, obscenity, scandalous conduct, etc.) midshipmen brood in confinement in their rooms. Midshipman quip that there are still men from the classes of the '30s gathering dust in forgotten corners of Bancroft Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - One Hundred Years | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

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