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...treating milkmen as an elite corps with pride, traditions and loyalties roughly approximating those of the U.S. Military Academy. Jimmy Durante cuts a fine figure of a milkman's milkman, and Recruit Donald O'Connor burns to win the right to take his girl strolling down Buttermilk Lane (the dairy's Flirtation Walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1950 | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

Neon Ads & Cow Protection. Last week visitors to Gandhinagar got a glimpse of both Tandon's traditional past and Nehru's wondrous future. Sitting in a specially built, galvanized iron-sheeted dining hall, they ate Tandon's strict orthodox menu: rice, wheat pancakes, lentils, sweets, vegetables, buttermilk. Shuffling around the ten-stall "village uplift" exhibition they gaped at tractors, bulldozers and an improved oil seed crusher. They gasped at a lecture on artificial insemination (illustrated with plaster models) and were dazzled by shimmering neon advertisements. They saw posters on the evils of drink; noted the stall which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A Duck for Rajrishi | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...valuable is a Godfrey free plug on the air that manufacturers, on the off chance that he will mention them, deluge him with .merchandise ranging from buttermilk to uranium ore to elks. They remember that, on TV, he has often taken a pull at a Coke bottle when he might have been plugging his sponsored products. And they know that Godfrey's fooling around with a ukulele on the air pumped new life into an industry that had been dormant since the early 1930s. Said uke salesman Jack Loeb: "Sales went from nothing to higher than they had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Oceans of Empathy | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

True Story, Liberty and the New York Evening Graphic (better known as the "porno-Graphic") had slipped from his aging grasp long ago. But for 50 years, Health Cultist Macfadden has remained as devoted to New Physical Culture, his first & last magazine, as he is to buttermilk, raw carrots and cottage cheese salad. Deep in the red, the gaudy bimonthly has done little to deserve his affection. More than 250,000 readers have paid $60 a set for Macfadden's Encyclopedia of Health and Physical Culture, an eight-volume guide to diet, disease and happy sex relations. Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Adam & Eve Power | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...midafternoon, with five Secret Servicemen as companions, he slipped away to a hideaway in a hotel at Excelsior Springs, 22 miles north of Kansas City. There he had a mineral bath, a rubdown, a sandwich and a glass of buttermilk. By 7 o'clock he was in bed. His aides, who were established in the eleventh-floor penthouse suite of Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, were gloomy; they had felt all along that election night would be like a wake. Harry Truman woke up several times during the night and telephoned to the Muehlebach. At about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Country Boy's Faith | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

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