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Aware that I could not be bought and grateful for my advice, Costello once asked me to lunch: "I know I can't offer you any money, but I had an idea. I wuz readin' in Winchell's column the other day where your brudder was made dramatic critic of the Hollywood Reporter. Now here is my idea. I'm connected with a hotel in Las Vegas. We got a room there where we got entertainment. How would it be if I made your brudder dramatic critic of the hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1960 | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

Some folks dare to call Vinson "Uncle Carl," and sometimes "The Swamp Fox," after the Revolution's great strategist, Francis Marion. In committee hearings Uncle Carl's slow drawl and subtle digs ("Wha'd'ya say yer name wuz, Gen'ral?") can shake stars and tangle braid. Though he has long been a stalwart defender of a big Navy, knowledgeable Carl Vinson is also a wise, powerful force for a strong military establishment. But Ike's plan was too much for Uncle Carl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Floodgates Opened | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...shmoky ol' lamp wuz burnin' bright In Finnigin's shanty all that night- Bilin' down his repoort, wuz Finnigin- An' he writed this here: "Musther Flannigan: Off agin, on agin, Gone agin.-Finnigin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Birth of the 84th | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...varmints thet lit thet fire hope to hell it'll burn down th' good life in this hore coutnry, 'spite of th' Const'tution, th' Bill o' Rights an' our states' rights an' all sech. My great gran'pappy he'p'd build this country, too. He wuz wounded oiver there on Rev'lutionary Ridge, righ here in Concord, Buried over in Sleepy Holler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A VARMINT IN THE VERNACULAR | 3/17/1954 | See Source »

...member once when I wuz a kid my Dad had trouble with skunks stealin' eggs from th' hen coop. He took down his gun one day an' he shot them skunks. Made a lot o' noise, but he sure fixed 'om. Didn't have no trouble 't all after that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A VARMINT IN THE VERNACULAR | 3/17/1954 | See Source »

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