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...blood pressure is poifick. It was 150 vitriolic and 98 diabolic . . . The doctor . . . said I had a coupla minor ailments and I says, 'That's funny. I never woiked in the mines ... So he told me I had fallen archeries . . . Since I went on that diet I ain't got no ulsters or no abominable trouble ... I had to practickly fast for a coupla days-jest a large cup of demitasse in the mornin' . . . He said I didn't have no sign of kodiak trouble around the heart or no coroner's trombone disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What a Built! | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...treatment for his case. We may remind a wind-tanned cowpoke from Lubbock, who's telling of the rugged old days on the plains, that he may need some of that same courage here. We have to reassure some, like the old Negro who said: 'I ain't afraid of dying-I'm just afraid of suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Where Can I Stay? | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

Hondo (Warner) is a western that has provoked a gag question in Hollywood: "Ain't it a Shane about Wayne?" The answer is: yes, sort of. The movie starts off looking like Shane by introducing the hero (John Wayne) as Shane was introduced-staggering out of the desert like a gun-slinging anchorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rough on the Redskins | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

Daley, on the other hand, seemed only too happy about the strike. "Thanks for your kind offer of a column outlet. The football season has ended. The basketball season has hardly started. The baseball season has yet to begin. IT jes' looks as though there ain't nuthin' doing nowhere, nohow. From a column-writing standpoint, this strike is perfect. I've just finished hanging on my door a sign, 'Do not disturb'. I aim to catch up on my sleep. No runs, no hits, no errors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Top Gotham Writers Spurn Crime Mercy Offer | 12/1/1953 | See Source »

...offered pay boost of 8? an hour, plus living-cost bonus of 2? (the union had asked for an average hourly increase of 26?, plus other benefits), jumping his hourly wage to $1.97. Said Gramm: "That's as much as anybody in this area is making. Maybe it ain't like the automobile boys, but it's still good around here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Strike Failure? | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

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