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...Downing Street is still home to Gladys Mary Wilson, 48. The new P.M.'s wife has moved in her washing machine and drying rack ("I couldn't quite see myself hanging out the washing") and dismissed the cook, being a whiz herself at smoked haddock, custard, and those parched tea dainties known hopefully by the British as "little fairy cakes." Harold smothers everything else in steak sauce, and the Government Hospitality Service takes care of banquets. It was frightfully pleb to the ex-cook, Alice Green. "I would have made the best of it," she sniffed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 27, 1964 | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...says, "I without fail will be flat on my bottom." She confides that she would really "like to be a sexy bombshell. But I'm not and never will be. So what I'd like would be really wacky comedy. I'd love to throw custard tarts at people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: The Once & Future Queen | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...Nobody," writes Miss McGinley, "has so far received a Pulitzer Prize for contriving a poetic boiled custard, in spite of the fact (which I know from experience) that it is a feat far less easy to perform than writing a ballade." Her own recipe for boiled custard appears on page 269. Some other hints for the elegant execution of housewifery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: A Woman's Place | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...hell" campaign. It was there in 1960 that John F. Kennedy set the tone of his campaign with a passionately partisan pitch for labors vote. And it was there that Lyndon Johnson went last week to begin his campaign-with a speech that was about as partisan as custard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Campaign: Above The Battle | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

...A.M.A. warns that such foods as cut-up poultry, eggs, prepared meats, cake mixes and custard-filled bakery products are most likely to be contaminated because they are handled so often and so lightly cooked. In May, after 200 people from Utah were stricken with salmonellosis, food detectives traced the cause to infected frozen eggs used by local bakers. An outbreak that affected 300 people in Washington State last year was also traced to a frozen-egg product used in lemon meringue pies. Modern mass-production methods of food processing sometimes help spread salmonella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death Lurks in the Kitchen | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

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