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...hero. His name was taken off the AWOL list, and he was promoted to pfc. for his devotion to duty. His own explanation was not so singleminded, or so simpleminded, as all that. "I got no kicks," said Frenchy. "I had it pretty good. Those guys were bringing me chow, and I didn't stand no reveille...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Good Soldier Frenchy | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

Short-changed on his fishing, Ike consoled himself with another favorite pastime-cooking. He took full responsibility for the party's meals, noisily clanged the big outdoor dinner bell whenever chow was on. (One day's menu: breakfast-flapjacks and sausage; lunch-potato salad and Ike's special vegetable soup, which takes two days to make; dinner-trout and roasting ears.) In between meals, he loafed around, sometimes worked on a new oil painting-a mountain landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Complete Vacationer | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...crazy.") and his singing commercials made his name a California gag. Red Skelton, Bing Crosby and others kidded his commercials, the University of Southern California rooting section spelled out his name at halftime, and soldiers at Santa Ana Camp marched into chow singing "MUNTZ, that's Muntz." And his gross jumped from $150,000 to $1,000,000 a month. Dissatisfied with car design, he put out his own custom-built sports car, still makes 100 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Dig That Crazy Man | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...historic Bancroft Hall for luncheon. He didn't, he said, know quite what to say to them on a Sunday afternoon. "If I had taken you from a mathematics or engineering class, there might have been a little different aspect to the case. But today when it is chow time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Traveling Man | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...They read too much, remember too much, and don't chow it over," said Theodore S. Baer '46. Instructor in General Education. "They are fact-minded rather than idea-minded." Charles R. Cherington '35, professor of Government, agreed, "Radcliffe girls have a marked tendency to study too hard nd think too little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 'Cliffe Girl: An Instructor's View | 4/18/1953 | See Source »

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