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...These were hell-roaring, rip-snorting affairs with the loudest & longest speeches you ever heard. The President loved those picnics, never missed one." Boyle recalled listening to the President's St. Louis speech just before the 1948 election. "About halfway through, he began talking off the cuff. 'Uh-oh,' I said to myself, 'here goes a Lonejack oration,' and that's what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Purges & Picnics | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...knit and unobtrusive. I suspect the Lunts' edge over the Sidney-Loder duo was in making every shot count; some humorously intended lines in the present rendition just can't lug their point across the footlights. But that still leaves enough laughs and satire and embarrassing encounters of the "Uh-oh, look who's here" type to amuse you for a couple of hours--so long as you don't expect to remember the play more than a week...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: O Mistress Mine | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Keyholer Walter Winchell, claiming a "scoopee (we hope)," gave the rumor currency by a second-hand report that 34-year-old Frank Handy, son of the publisher of the Ypsilanti (Mich.) Press, "has the engagement ring in his pocket now, waiting for [Margaret's] uh-huh." Washington society began to envision a White House wedding;* some even speculated about its political usefulness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Waiting for the Uh-Huh | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Girl: I couldn't understand it. He was about to strike his mother when the uh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Synopsis | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Girl: And then she uh-the mother jumped into the water and she was uh-she took care of the baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Synopsis | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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