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...that brings up another point. We have noticed a big increase in the delicatessen business since the Navy wives got a break. That break, of course, being the elimination of he snack hour from...

Author: By Ens. R. D. semple, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Newsmen, calling Bronx citizens, got day-by-day communiqués on the battle. They also got a few rebukes. One citizen shouted into the phone: "Listen, mister, this is a delicatessen. With all these people lined up for cold cuts, I should talk to you about cockroaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Bugs in the Bronx | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...public, traditionally suspicious of striped-pants diplomats, he looks disarmingly undiplomatic. His roly-poly shape, bland face, crinkly eyes, thick spectacles and thinning grey hair give him the friendly air of a delicatessen-keeper. His accent sounds like purest ingenuous Brooklynese. He looks exactly like his Revolution-days nickname: Papasha-Little Papa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Tough Baby from Moscow | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

Cigar-puffing, Bronx-born Milt Gross is mainly famous as the cartoonist who created the comic-strip sagas Dave's Delicatessen, That's My Pop! and Count Screwloose of Tooloose. But in his restless career among the fine and lively arts, Cartoonist Gross has also taken several whacks at writing (Nize Baby, Famous Fimmales from Heestory, etc.) and at serious landscape art. Last week Hollywood's Frank Perls Gallery was exhibiting the results of Cartoonist Gross's latest venture into fine art: 30 drawings of homely, tumbledown western farm and mining-town scenes. Artist Gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Milt Gross, Landscapist | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...Manhattan's Plaza Hotel bar, and he has not lost his Continental knack of getting amusement out of the idea of cuckoldry. He is amused by it in Delicate Story. which is so delicate that it almost - but not quite - wastes away. The wife of a Swiss delicatessen-keeper takes a shine to a young man about to be called back to the army of his native land. Her husband eventually suspects the worst, but it really hasn't happened. The young man - to the distress of the wife - has been in love with someone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Shows in Manhattan | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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