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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swine." Therefore, I question the type of "priestly inauguration" held in Jerusalem between 73 and 63 B.C. that served "oysters" (no scales or fins) and "mussels" (no scales or fins) and "sow's udder" (Thou shalt not eat the flesh of any animal that doth not chew the cud nor have a cloven hoof). Will you please explain what type of "priest" was inaugurated at the "sumptuous repast" referred to by Author O'Brien in The Bible Cookbook [March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 31, 1958 | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...deputy probation officer. "There were two kinds of people then," he recalls. "Those who had never had a desire to improve themselves -and those who were looking for some way to better their lot. My father-he didn't wear whiskers and he didn't chew tobacco. There wasn't any reason he couldn't hold his head up and look any man straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Harvesters | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...Chew-Chew. In Fresno, Calif., when the San Joaquin Daylight train arrived 18 minutes late, Southern Pacific officials blamed "unforeseen operating difficulties" for the delay-Engineer William J. Franey had sneezed, blown his upper dentures out the cab window, stopped the train to hunt for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 30, 1957 | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...Glamour." Things were not always "so good," either. As Fanny Rose Shore in Winchester, Tenn. (pop. 3,974), she bridled at schoolmates' taunting puns ("Fanny sat on a tack. Fanny rose? Shore!"). Recalls Dinah: "I tell you, it just made me go home nights and chew my pillow." In childhood she suffered from polio, which for six years threatened the full use of her right foot. After some bleak, jobless days in Manhattan, she spent 3½ years indentured to radio's Eddie Cantor, did poorly in several movies (Belle of the Yukon, Up in Arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Is There Anyone Finah? | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...chew a slice...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Joker's Motley Garb | 11/7/1957 | See Source »

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