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...Rome here," says Sinatra when he answers the phone. "Are you still going with that Cuban girl?" an old friend asks. "No," says Sinatra, "she left me with a 40-dollar perfume bill. If I'd known she was gonna smell that good, I woulda hung right in there." Actually one of the movie's best lines...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Tony Rome | 11/22/1967 | See Source »

...wrap up the two-year-old filly championship with a victory in the $75,000 Gardenia Stakes at New Jersey's Garden State Park this week. But Trainer Trotsek is a persistent pessimist. "This game is made up of 'shoulda,' 'coulda' and 'woulda,'" he says glumly. "Who knows? A better filly might come along." Sure, Harry-next year. Owners Hancock and Perry are watching the progress of a little bay yearling whose parents' names are Nantallah and Rough Shod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: If at First You Succeed, Try, Try Again | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...just prowhite. Then he called for volunteers to start a local N.A.A.W.P. chapter in Milford. The first to step forward was Mrs. Mildred Sharp. After her came Farmer Charles West ("If God had intended us to associate with the colored race, He wouldn'ta made niggers. He woulda made us all white"), and Evangelist Manaen Warrington. Bryant Bowles promptly made these "three red-blooded Americans" directors of the new chapter, proceeeded to tell his audience more about the dangers of integration. At one point he plunked his three-year-old daughter on the table and cried: "Do you think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Racial Flare-Up | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...occasion), they brought back a few such famous characters as Lillian ("Madame Queen") Randolph and Elinor ("Ruby") Harriet, and recalled some favorite milestones from their script life: Madame Queen's breach of promise suit against Andy (". . . We was engaged 147 times in one year . . . an' it woulda been more dan dat if we'd been goin' steady"); Andy's first meeting with Kingfish- played by Gosden (Andy: "Say, scusee me for protrudin', stranger, but ain't you got ahold of my watch chain?" Kingfish: "Your watch chain? Well, so I does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: 10,000th Performance | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...pretty tired of Russian propaganda, too. Says De Marco: "Russia .was the greatest country, it had the greatest army, its soldiers were the toughest . . . They sure got mad, though, when the Russians lost the Olympics. One of them fellows told me if he was at the Olympics he woulda beat them Russian athletes with a whip. Can you beat that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Trip Behind the Iron Curtain | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

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