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The Egg & G.I. In Angeles, Philippines, U.S. Airman Joseph McAndries squatted heavily on a basketful of eggs, had to pay $4.29 damages to Vigilio Dizon, who asked McAndries to get up, got back only an Air Force cackle.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 25, 1957 | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

A basketful of problems awaits Joe Dodge. Differences of approach among Dulles, Stassen, Humphrey and others have stalled Eisenhower's none-too-vigorous past efforts to construct a clear-cut U.S. economic policy for the world (TIME, Dec. 13). Dodge would not go back into the Washington snake pit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Snake Charmer | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

In the Paris ballroom, Moulin-Rouge, it was like old times for two waifs of the political storms. Expatriate Songstress Josephine ("The U.S. is not a free country") Baker, with a basketful of orchids slung over her shoulder, warbled I'm Looking for an Old Friend. When she spotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 1, 1953 | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

Godolphin has in his office, (besides a collection of rare knives and swords, which he denies using on the culprits) a wastebasket full of captured tools. This collection of implements taken by cops and proctors from unsuccessful freshman thieves includes one poker, two rusty hollow iron pipes, one hammer, one...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Generations Of Princetonians Love Tradition | 11/10/1951 | See Source »

On a government-owned farm in Guatemala one day last week, Dr. William Cowgill (rhymes with low bill) picked a heaping basketful of coffee cherries. The cherries came from one of the trees that Cowgill, as chief of the coffee section of the joint U.S.-Guatemalan agricultural development project, had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Improving the Breed | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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