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...YELLER-HEADED SUMMER, by Francis Irby Gwaltney (207 pp.; Rinehart; $3), proves once again that a passel of li'l ole mental defectives can be pretty funny if they speak with a Southern drawl. Dim-witted Jack Winters, hero of this first novel, is constable of Walnut Creek, Ark., and a Bedder-which means that his folks were pore white trash who scratched out a living in a dry river bed. But Jack is proud of his gun and his badge; he loves to crank up the siren on the state police car, and his noblest ambition used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...Yeller Feller. By 1904, when Government Clerks Oscar and Mark Shillingsworth arrived in Port Zodiac (Darwin), the town was a thronging spectrum of racial color. "Going combo" (mixing with the native women) was officially taboo but an enthusiastic reality in a country short on white women and addicted to "black velvet." Soon half-castes outnumbered whites three-to-one. Unrecognized by their white fathers (who felt vaguely double-crossed), they were tolerated as mongrels by the blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Scarlet Plains | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...Wottadamshame--Hand me over that yeller, shtinkin' Lampoon uv a magazine. It's a libel, that's fwhat it is, and fwhat's more, it's me that'll not shtand any more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

...Yeller's "Outline of the History of Greek Philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Co-operative Society Bulletin. | 2/19/1889 | See Source »

...Yeller's "Outline of the History of Greek Philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Co-operative Society Bulletin. | 2/18/1889 | See Source »

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