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Costa Rica has long had a large colony of German coffee and banana growers, many of whom are pro-Nazi in sympathy. Last week Costa Rica's anonymous Nazi leader-announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: 300 Alephs | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...Senior Banana Night at 8:15 In living room of Union--Music and entertainment provided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Turn Back The Clock | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...kissed orange, the vitaminous banana and the MacIntosh apple all have high nutritive value which would be very good for general health, particularly as the hot weather has arrived. Viewed from this angle it would seem that a very healthy tendency to consume more fruit is being officially discouraged. However, forbidden fruit somehow or other has a sweeter taste, unless some misguided individual has the bad luck to pocket a lemon, in which case his sly smile will rapidly turn to a pucker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORBIDDEN FRUIT | 5/5/1937 | See Source »

...stands for horsepower. Chavez tried therein to contrast the luxurious, banana-laden tropics with the hard commercialism of the North and to show how each needs the other. When Stokowski gave the ballet its world premiere in Philadelphia five years ago (TIME, April 11, 1932), he had dancers to take such roles as a coconut, a mermaid with a guitar, a swordfish, a gasoline pump, a ventilator. Last week's audience had no dancers to explain what was happening or to whom it was happening. They heard only music to express life aboard ship, a hot-blooded tango where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mexican in Manhattan | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...banana knockers' in Eua, Nukualofa, Tonga Islands, only one is a Harvard 1912 man." Some 1912 luminaries who failed a Benchley citation: onetime Securities & Exchange Commissioner Joseph Patrick Kennedy, New York's former Republican State Chairman William Kingsland Macy, Massachusetts' Representative Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth, Author Frederick Lewis Allen (Only Yesterday), New York University's Richard Offner, expert on Florentine Art, Japan's steamship tycoon Ryozo Asano, the New York Times's Science News Editor William L. ("Bill") Laurence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sober Statistics | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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