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...thieves apparently entered through a back door, tossed a ham hock from the refrigerator to a watchdog (he was still gnawing contentedly when the police arrived), greased the bottom of the safe with a cake of soap and dragged it away. The money included two $10,000 and 200 $1,000 bills. At week's end, the cops were baffled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Record Haul | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...December with an old Spanish custom (candlelight processions symbolizing the search for shelter by Mary and Joseph). They conclude it on Jan. 6 with an old Italian custom (giving gifts to children for the Festival of the Three Kings) and an old French custom (cutting up a cake containing a figurine of the Christ Child). Between times, they observe an old Franco-Spanish custom (displaying crèches showing Christ in the manger), an old European custom (hanging stockings), an old English custom (sending cards), an old German custom (decrating Christmas trees), and an old U.S. custom (receiving presents from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Too Many Customs | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...rolls, 2) 24 pats of butter, 3) one pint of cider, 4) a triple chef's salad, 5)3 four-egg cheese omelette, 6) a double order of French fries, 7) four pieces of toast, 8) a double portion of strawberry shortcake, 9) one slice of chocolate layer cake, 10) one piece of cheesecake, 11) one pear tart, 12) one cheese sandwich, 13) one egg salad sandwich, 14) two portions of mocha nut cake, 15) a dessert of cottage cheese and peaches covered with sour cream, then refused cream & sugar with her coffee because "they're fattening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 17, 1951 | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...women, chat over "real home-cooked" food. Last week at lunch, every-joined in on a chorus of "For he's a jolly good fellow" to congratulate a Pakistani on being a father of a baby boy, born 11,000 miles away. Birthdays also demand a big celebration with cake and all the fixings...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: Embryo Diplomats Pursue International Life, Studies at Small, Congenial Fletcher School | 12/14/1951 | See Source »

Hungarian-born Caterers Frederick and Maria Floris, who own a farm near Chartwell, Kent, followed their ten-year-old custom of baking a birthday cake for their well-known neighbor Winston Churchill. For the Prime Minister's 77th birthday, they delivered to 10 Downing Street a monumental 80-lb. confection in the shape of a flat-topped bowler hat, heavily iced with chocolate and decorated with 200 fancy sugary feathers commemorating some of the honors and triumphs in the long Churchillian career.† Biggest feather of all bore the name Clementine, for his wife, who has shared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: War & Peace | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

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