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...know all that. I'm not saying they're naturally inferior. I'm just sayin' they live different, they think different, they act different. They look different, too, but that's not it. A redhead looks different, but no kid over ten holds that against her. Maybe in the North that's all there is to it. Just black skin. Maybe that's why Northerners talk so much about tolerance. Maybe that's why a Northerner can't understand the South, because he's never known a Southern nigger...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Hayes-Bickford | 10/10/1957 | See Source »

From CBS's Washington studios last week came a new network noise: "Whenever the day is endin', wherever we are seen, it's the whole gang sayin', good evenin' from Jimmy Dean." At 28, rawboned, wavy-haired Jimmy Dean* was making his nighttime TV bow as the dandy of country music, and showing a late-hour (10:30 p.m., E.D.T.) audience just why millions have been getting up at 7 a.m. five days a week to catch his slick Texas slang and catgut twang. Since April Dean has charmed early risers away from Dave Garroway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Good Country Boy | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...word of the language: "Hardly had I climbed into a rickshaw than I saw riding in another along the Bund a Negro who looked exactly like a Harlemite. I stood up in my rickshaw and yelled. 'Hey man!' He stood up in his rickshaw and yelled, 'What ya sayin'?' We passed each other in the crowded street, and I never saw him again...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Hughes' I Wonder As I Wander: Reveries of an Itinerant Poet | 12/13/1956 | See Source »

...vision. I see the civil service monster lyin' flat on the ground. I see the Democratic Party standin' over it with foot on its neck and wearin' the crown of victory. I see Thomas Jefferson lookin' out from a cloud and sayin', 'Give him another sockdologer: finish him.' And I see millions of men wavin' their hats and singin', 'Glory Hallelujah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SACHEMS & SINNERS AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF TAMMANY HALL | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

That ended the one flicker of excitement in a drab fight. The fans began booing in the ninth round and kept it up intermittently until the final bell. Someone asked Promoter Joe Louis who he thought had won. "Ain't sayin'," muttered Joe, "I didn't pay to get in." For their $246,546, the customers did not see anybody Charles' seriously manager, hit the who floor fainted in except the Ezzard ring as his lackluster leather-thrower was being proclaimed the new heavyweight cham pion of the world (National Boxing Asso ciation version, not good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: I Didn't Pay to Get In | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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