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...airplanes that are faster and perhaps cheaper?" Taken aback, Pella began to argue that Russian jets actually cost more than the U.S.-made DC-6B (an obsolescent type on U.S. airlines). Khrushchev dismissed the point with a proverb: "When fish is cheap, it's always rotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: In Dispraise of Macaroni | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

Grace says that we did her "a foul and rotten trick"-this is the kind of trick I wish someone would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 4, 1960 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...more or less tricking her into writing her latest exposé of small-town wickedness. In agreement with most critics, Grace growled: "This isn't a novel; it's a Hollywood treatment." Added she: "It was never intended to be anything else. It was a foul, rotten trick. They made a hell of a lot on Peyton Place, and they wanted to ride the gravy train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...inobtrusive." Then Rooney began to discuss the previous night's Jack Paar Show, said, "I stayed up until I couldn't sleep any more. May I say this, I'm not a fan. I don't care to watch your show ... It sounds pretty, pretty rotten. I didn't enjoy your show. Jack. And I don't enjoy it too much, except I can't-I can't stay away from it." Paar: "Do you enjoy it tonight?" Rooney: "Not necessarily." Paar: "Would you care to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Slipped Mickey | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Silver for Christmas. Clay's view of payola ethics is intricate: "I have never demanded money from a record-company. When a deejay does that, he's dirty rotten. But it is all right for a man to put down $200 and leave a record for a deejay. If the deejay honestly thinks it is good, then he is justified in taking the $200 because, after all, that money is an investment for the record company. If the deejay turns down the record, the $200 is well spent. It saves the company money-they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Wages of Spin | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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