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...mountain boy who courted the same woman for 20 years. When she finally gave in, he sat down and cried because he was afraid he might do something wrong." All over the country, people were paying off election bets. In Lowell, Mass., one loser let himself be bombarded by custard pies; in Alabama, a girl ate the front page of the pro-Ike Montgomery Advertiser (after burning it and dunking it in coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: How They Took It | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...wife (Ginger Rogers) drink some of this magical potion, they promptly revert to adolescence. Gary gets himself a crew haircut, a loud sport jacket and a fire-red convertible. Ginger, turning into a giggly jitterbug, slips a live goldfish into Tycoon Charles Coburn's trousers and plants a custard pie under his posterior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 22, 1952 | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

Jewish extremists and had gone home full of untold hatred for the U.S. They watched beadily as the slim, smiling youth received the first, custard-pie impact of an American welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Hey King | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

...crumbs but John has to brush them off the table anyway. Barnett brings me a plate with a finger bowl and doily on it. I remove the finger bowl and doily and John puts a glass saucer and a little bowl on the plate. Barnett brings me some chocolate custard. John brings me a demi-tasse (at home a little cup of coffee-about two good gulps) and my dinner is over. I take a hand bath in the finger bowl and go back to work. What a life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Wonderful Wastebasket | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...loud and prompt. Like many a medical evangelist, Dr. Lincoln has a handful of devoted disciples. Among them: New Hampshire's Senator Charles W. Tobey.* "Smash 'em right in the eyes!" howled Tobey when he heard what the medical society had done. "Lick 'em like a custard! They're crucifying a wonderful man-a genius." By no coincidence, Tobey is one of Lincoln's patients; he insists on getting the bacteriophage treatment three or four times a week in the office of Capitol Physician George Calver. He says that it has considerably reduced his high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Whiff of Phage | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

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