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...Dreadful, or lamented mating in the movies when the lovers "come together finally for a kiss, the mouths are open, on the big screen it's half a block long, you could see the tongues, like from a cow, this is not love any more, this is delicatessen!" In the end, of course, both Slezak and Neal went back to their old playmates, having come to know that "the main thing is a little understanding and a little humor." The play had a little of both, thanks to attractive performances and to authentic Seventh Avenue argot by Elick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Combat Fatigue. In North Philadelphia, after Hagop Kooyoomijian, 53, for the 14th time in his life, chased an armed hold-up man out of his delicatessen, he explained: "I'm not afraid of their guns; I have a heart condition and may die anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 6, 1958 | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...commission which issues the licenses, warned Cronin's, the Wursthaus, the Oxford Grille, and the Midget Delicatessen. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission obtained evidence of the illegal sales in September and forwarded it to the Cambridge board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liquor Laws Violated by 4 Restaurants | 10/24/1957 | See Source »

What led poor Ed to his bed of pain? The story begins back in his turn-of-the-century childhood, when he is a dutiful teen-ager slaving away in his German-American father's "Lilliputian delicatessen." Father and mother have taught him that his three brothers and a sister are geniuses, but that he is a dolt. He takes it in good grace: "I sure wish I was an artist, a genius, thought Edward, instead of being dumb like I am." Dumb Ed has a dumb friend, a little pet hen that pecks "feverishly at his lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ugly Sibling | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...restaurants involved include "Cronin's," the Oxford Grille, and the Wursthaus. Also named was the Midget Delicatessen Store at 1712 Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Evidence On Liquor Sales Sent by ABC | 9/25/1957 | See Source »

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