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...carried her up a stage staircase. In Paris during the last days of World War II, she met Mike Todd decked out in what appeared to be a porter's uniform decorated with countless rows of ribbons, medals, and stars and bars of every rank. "Any sonofabitch Nazi catches me," said Todd, "he'll give me the VIP treatment." During the filming of Giant, the picture's co-producer appeared on the set one day, ashen-faced after a terrifying drive through the studio back lot with James Dean. "Shoot those extra Jimmy Dean scenes quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Glimpses of a Half-Century | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

...series of raucous cocktail-lounge press conferences in Sydney. Leo downed double Scotches, tickled giggling waitresses, and made wildly conflicting statements about Elliott ("He's a sonofabitch . . . I love the guy"). He pursued Elliott to Melbourne, on arrival handed newsmen a classically misspelled statement. It attacked the "imberciles" who had pictured him as a "charlton," whined: "Am I to be sacrificed on the alter of prejudice?'' By this time Australians were increasingly suspicious that Leavitt's antics were chiefly designed to publicize another Western Promotions venture-the tour of "Goose" Tatum's basketball team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unhung and Unemployed | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...telephone. Some resented the fact that he had pursued the President's dictum that the White House should work with Congress through the leadership; they felt that as a result, Adams had locked them out of the White House. Then there were the old-line Taft-men. "That sonofabitch," said one bitterly. "He was one of those who went down to Texas and planted that flag-'Thou Shalt Not Steal'-on Taft in the delegate vote fight in 1952. Now that he's got the same thing coming his way, nobody's going to defend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Man in the Storm | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...mayor was untouched; there were great evil forces at work in the world, and Paul Egan stood ready to analyze them with frequent, mysterious monologues. Sample: "Lenin was a noble man, like Gandhi. It was that sonofabitch Trotsky that messed things up. And that obscenity Stalin. I wonder where he came from. I'll tell you. I think J. P. Morgan put him in. The two big things that cause world tension are religion and the National Association of Manufacturers. I went down to the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach and I saw gutters made out of marble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: The People's Choice | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

YOUR AUG. 27 ISSUE REPORTS THIS QUOTATION FROM ME TO THE HONORABLE JOHN MCCORMACK, CHAIRMAN OF THE PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE, NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION: "GRIFFIN WELL UNDERSTOOD. SAID HE AFFABLY: 'THANK YOU JOHN. I'LL JUST TELL THE BOYS THAT YANKEE SONOFABITCH WOULDN'T GIVE ME ANY TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 10, 1956 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

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