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...Property." Of course they were this year's host club. But that could hardly account for the performance put on by Don Schollander, 18, a smooth-cheeked broth of a boy who favors gaudy red, white and blue swimsuits and starts like a torpedo out of a tube. In the 400-meter freestyle, he clipped nearly 1 sec. off the world record with a 4-min. 12.7-sec. clocking. Next he stepped up for the 200-meter freestyle -down went the record by nearly 1 sec., to 1 min. 57.6 sec. "I always think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swimming: Look Out, Tokyo, California's Coming | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...Massachusetts Supreme Court struck a blow to "save our world-renowned fish chowder from degenerating into an insipid broth." As all seasoned slurpers should know, New England fish chowder is full of dangerous objects-from bones to bits of shell. And when Priscilla Webster swallowed without seining at Boston's Blue Ship Tea Room, she got a bone in her throat that required hospital extraction. Miss Webster sued, won a jury verdict of $1,800. On reversing it, the Supreme Court absolved the restaurant of responsibility for the damage done by "the bone of contention," even though "we sympathize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Of Booze, Broth & Anguish | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

...Britain, there was the choice of severing its bond with the U.S. and becoming more European, as De Gaulle requires, or of never joining the Common Market. And for France's broth er nations in the Common Market itself, there was again a time of self-examination about precisely what kind of unified Europe it is that Charles de Gaulle intends-or hopes-to create...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Pebbles in the Pond | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...other word to describe these refugees from some amateurish Pirates of Penzance-of young girls pelt him with phony giggles and surfeit him with breakfasts of duck eggs, fine fat boiled hens, cakes, and pats of butter wrapped in cabbage leaves. Too many cooks can spoil a broth of a boy, and Christy's vanity spurs him on to further embroideries on how he killed his wicked old father. Then father appears-and Christy Mahon, the golden-tongued playboy of the western world, crumples into a cringing figure of contempt before all his fine new friends. But whisht! Christy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Such Talk | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

...stockholder, and tastemaker, Stouffer is on the road at least one-third of the time to keep up the standards. He likes to drop into his restaurants unannounced, order a meal as if he were just another customer, then quiz managers on such details as the amount of chicken broth that goes into Stouffer's official vichyssoise. Says Stouffer: "You can't delegate quality control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Something Like Mom's | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

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