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...wave length And I'm readin' you just fine Don't cut out of here 'Till we get on Cloud Nine . . . B-a-aby, you're the ginchiest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUKEBOX: Kookie's Comb | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...maverick queen's bloody secret. Mrs. Zane Grey's answer: her in defatigable husband, who sometimes polished off a novel in two or three months of fast scribbling, was 15 to 20 manuscripts ahead of Harper's schedule. That could well mean another decade of easy readin' and hard ridin' before Zane Grey's zealous fans reach the end of the trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heroes Ride On Forever | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...couple of hours' entertainment. That many men would just clutter up the stage." The judge had to warn the audience not to laugh or applaud. Mae gave the rest of the cast an approving eye, told them: "You're doin' all right. The first readin' was terrific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...never read 'em. I'm a constructive kinda person. Don't believe in readin' destructive kinda trash. The way I figger is those critics came up against a play that was so fine, so sincere, so puhfick they knew there wasn't anything they could write in praise would add to it. So they went off and panned it. See what I mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Puhfick Explanation | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

Jimmy wears glasses now ('"for readin' da racin' form'") and his hair, despite violent applications of every tonic known to barbers, has thinned ("I'm known as the surrey with the fringe on top"). But his Gargantuan energy is unabated. Suite No. 472 is never locked. Friends swarm through the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy, That Well-Dressed Man | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

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