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...fact, I have always given, and do now give, a level of personal service far beyond any offered by the Statler organization ... I always furnish the guest a rattrap for his room, free of charge. No charge is made for cheese for same. Of course, if the guest requests Camembert, Gruyère or Roquefort, a nominal charge is made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HAMPSHIRE: Out of the Sticks | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...students in weird disguises (see cut). In the afternoon, the proprietors of all the Paris dress houses threw parties for their midinettes (Christian Dior gave his on the first platform of the Eiffel Tower). The spirit of the occasion was best summarized by one reveler who threw a Camembert, in just the right state of decomposition, up to the ceiling; there it stuck, slowly dripping cheese on the gaiety below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Happy Day for the Wise | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...uncertain as a wrong key at a lock. Barker's scenes with his designing secretary (played by his wife, Pearl) often carry off the show. "There," says Pearl, "two eyes looking at you so tenderly, two soft arms offering you something you can't possibly resist." Barker: "Camembert!" Pearl: "No, Love!" Barker (with a quivery laugh): "Steady, Barker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Steady, Barker | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...battered Norman town, zealous U.S. sanitary officers pursued a putrid smell. They arrived at a storehouse, staggered back as the full power of 10,000 ripening Camembert cheeses oozed out the opened door. The officers commandeered a quantity of precious gasoline, saturated the building and its contents, stood back in satisfaction as one more apparent hazard to the health of troops went up in smoke. The frantic, howling owner did not speak enough English to make them understand that his stinking hoard really smelled just right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cheese | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...Cracked Walter Winchell: "Mama Baer, Papa Baer and Camembert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Fight | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

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