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...must suffer so that the whole region may gain: flood control, better crops, new industries, more jobs. "You don't love the land," he protests. "You love your land." She sends him packing with a proud but pathetic declaration of the frontier's faith: "I like things runnin' wild. I'm agin dams of any kind. And I ain't crawlin' to any guvmint." Evicted, she dies of a broken heart, and a new generation buries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 6, 1960 | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

Battle Hymns & Electoral Votes. The week began amid a Dixieland band smash of Runnin' Wild! and Ain't She Sweet? as the President walked into a $100-a-plate Republican dinner at the Sheraton-Park Hotel with Mamie Eisenhower on his arm. Ike gave the 3,000 guests no soothing syrup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Morale Is the Seed | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...insurance commissioner." "Oh, no," Martin howled back. "You're proving you should never have been governor." A few minutes later Long tangled again with Leander Perez. When Perez offered to meet him "man to man," Long snorted: "I ain't got no medals for runnin', you know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Last of the Red-Hot Poppas | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...another across this pretty little green cow pasture. Well, they was. And somebody had tuk and drawed white lines all over it and drove posts in it and Ah don't know what-all, and Ah looked down thar and Ah seen five or six convicts a-runnin' up & down and a-blowin' whistles. They was . . . And friends, Ah seen that evenin' the awfullest fight that Ah have ever seen in mah life. Ah did. They would run at one another and kick one another and th'ow one another down and stomp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: What It Is, Is Talk | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...Made Me Love You. But before the end of the first chorus, the song seems to take its own head, and her voice mounts until it sobs and gargles on the edge of hysteria. Next moment she is off again on a frenzied version of Tzena, Tzena, Tzena or Runnin' Wild, finally plunges into the doleful depths of Love for Sale, her standard windup number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Leave Them Down | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

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