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...Brooklyn, Jimmy Walsh, 9, of Hillside, N.J., and their adult guide, lanky Sonny Fox, 32. When they came to photographs of military leaders who served under Truman, Fox pointed to the picture of Douglas MacArthur and said: "Sometimes you have to dismiss generals, don't you, Mr. Truman?" "Yep," agreed Truman. "You hire 'em and you fire 'em, just like any other business." The former President pointed to Omar Bradley's photograph and said: "There's the greatest field general in the history of the country." Of George C. Marshall, he said: "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Old Pro | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

When he rode grimly into Los Angeles territory last week, Big Bill Knowland set about doing away with his transparent pretense that nothing political was on his mind. Nope, he told newsmen, there was nothing new to announce concerning his future plans. Yep, he and the missis were planning to take a vacation. And then he would "tour the state from the Oregon border to the Mexican border." Was this to be all one big vacation trip? Big Bill shifted his gun belt. "You can't," he said without cracking a smile, "combine a vacation with a campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Coming Attraction | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...despite their professional sophistication, the Porgy people were impressed by the cultural hullabaloo stirred up by their visit. "Yep," said one, "we got history fenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home for Dead Cats | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...country giving billiard exhibitions. Anything that requires muscular coordination is her meat. She has excelled at tennis, swimming, diving, bowling, shot-putting, lacrosse, fencing and polo. She can type 86 words a minute and has been heard to say of her husband, George Zaharias, a 300-lb. ex-wrestler: "Yep, I threw him last night with a flying mare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...best player and biggest draw in women's golf, Babe stopped wearing a chip on her shoulder. Instead of greeting all rivals with, "Yep, I'm gonna beat you," she began encouraging the younger girls on the circuit and established a working friendship with the older ones. When George is not traveling the circuit with her, she often rooms with Patty Berg, who has been her chief adversary for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

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