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...feller isn't thinkin' mean-out fishin': His thoughts are mostly good and clean-out fishin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Catch a Fish | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

Full of such levelheaded reminders, and sporting a painstaking index and several hundred illustrations, Fishing provides just about all the help a grudgeless, clean-thinkin' angler will need, short of soaking his leader and catching his fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Catch a Fish | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...bitten and taciturn West Virginians were confused and worried. "That John," said an Irish-born shot-firer in the Kanawha coalfields, "he be the greatest man of the 20th Century, but I be damned if we'uns can figure him out this time ... I think John be a thinkin' o'hisself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: It'd Better Be Good | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Louis, a modest man, makes no bones about what he owes to Joe Oliver in the Chicago days: "We never had to look at each other when we played, both just thinkin' the same thing. And he's the one that stopped me playin' all those variations-what they call bebop today. 'You get yourself a lead [melody] and you stick to it,' Papa Joe told me. And I always do." It was the kind of jazz that didn't take written arrangements, if a man had "a lead" and could "cut loose from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Louis the First | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...chair, and everything begun to look dazey . . . It was like the white folks watching was in a big swing, and they'd swing away and back and then right up close. When they put the black bag over my head, I was all locked up . . . with loud thinkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Black Is the Color . . . | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

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