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Some even claim that Winthrop resembles the illustrious Schmoo created by Al Capp. It fits any occasion: broil it for chicken and fry it for steak. In essence, the Schmoo is friendly and productive and antagonizes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Hits Golden Mean, Though T-Shirts Top Tie-clips | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

Next morning the President was up early and off again in the balmy Georgia weather for more hunting. At noon he helped to broil quail over a charcoal grill. When the day's hunting was over, he had bagged his limit-an even dozen quail. On Sunday, after 36 hours out of doors, Ike emplaned for Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hunter | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...notable change goes farthest back into American life: cooking over an open fire. In the newest expensive kitchens, fireplaces or barbecue pits are standard equipment. Other householders use broilers or rotisseries. Broiler sales last year reached $72,402,000, more than quadruple :he 1952 total. One new firm, the Broil-Quik Co., grossed around $1,000,000 in 1950, its first year; by last year, sales had shot up to $10 million, and the company expects to gross between $15 million and $20 million in 1954. Welbilt Stove last year put an electric rotisserie in one of its gas ranges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kitchen Comeback | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...about the U.S. inviting jaded food editors, who were cynical about all such preparations, to try theirs. In surprise, the editors began writing enthusiastically that "it really worked," made a cheap chuck steak as tender and nearly as flavorful as a sirloin, a tough stewing hen tender enough to broil. In three years Adolf's sales have risen to $3,000,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Old Indian Trick | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...sons, they have only words to squander, but the words are never counterfeit. They buy belief in the small beauties that rouse Ches and Finn, e.g., the quicksilver grace of a hare giving a pair of pelting hounds the slip, the brotherly ritual of turf-cutting in the broil of a summer sun, the benedictions of the parish priest at the church of Mary Without Stain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Shout in the Blood | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

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