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...husband, he nearly passed away last winter. I paid down payment on tombstone. He ain't dead yet. He found out, wants money back to put fender guards on car. He sore mad. What I do?" Answer: "Demand your money back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Troubles in Texas | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

Died. Clyde Tingley, 77, two-term Governor of New Mexico (1935-39) who was born in an Ohio log cabin, became proudly skilled as a political logroller (boasting that he brought $100 million in New Deal projects to the state) and proudly independent as a grammarian ("I ain't gonna quit saying 'ain't'"); of a heart attack; in Albuquerque. A vanishing echo of The Last Hurrah school, Tingley ran Albuquerque politics for 37 years from a hotel-lobby easy chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 6, 1961 | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...desired meeting was arranged for Vaus's place at Tarrytown. Pete arranged to pick up the Turban chieftains; another Y.D.I. worker collected the Senators. In Vaus's basement meeting room, the gang leaders began arguing: "You come into our block and burned us . . ." "Look, man, I ain't no punk, you know! . . ." Suddenly, Pete crashed his fist down on the table: "All right, you guys, you've been yakking for half an hour! Willy, look! This guy already told you he made a mistake. They admit they done something wrong. Will you accept?" "No. man," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Reaching the Unreachables | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...clouds with hooves. Sheep are also involved in the film's best sequence, a glorious piece of frontier humor in which Mitchum enters a shearing contest and takes a terrible licking from an 80-year-old man (Wylie Watson). Stone the crows if, on the whole, the show ain't square dinkum and everybody's cuppa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 19, 1960 | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...going against Leander Perez. Some Louisiana newsmen be lieve that his influence is waning. But those who know him best think he is just waiting for his next move. "I always take the offensive," Leander Perez once said, daintily flicking an ash from his omnipresent cigar. "The defensive ain't worth a damn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Racist Leader | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

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