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...score 700 or better, you will be admitted automatically to the Fenway Diner's graduate program in Red Sox Folk Lore and Mythology. If you score better than 550, you will be sent application materials...

Author: By E.j. Dionne, | Title: The 'Which Way to Fenway' Sox Quiz | 5/26/1972 | See Source »

...more ridiculous such expeditions involved a Muskie walking tour of the Manchester restaurants at lunch hour. First stop was a small, dingy diner where Muskie greeted a handful of eaters who were engaging in a frantic last minute effort to switch the fork from the right hand in time to meet the extended handshake of the Maine Senator. After cramming obtrusively into the small diner, the hoards of reporters followed the Senator to the pizza parlor havens where, much to the delight of the eager photographers, Muskie ate a piece of pizza. (All credit for foresight goes...

Author: By Patti B. Saris, | Title: Politics, Press, and Primaries | 3/18/1972 | See Source »

...white-tiled temple of taste employing 115 cooks and helpers. Sniffing and sampling as she went, she paused over the array of delicacies-goldfish in white sauce, egg rolls rampant on a field of seaweed, steamed baby bird couchant on clamshell pastry-and with the judicious eye of a diner selecting one from Column A and one from Column B. In the vegetable carving room, where chefs sculpted 6-ft. radishes, turnips, carrots and sugar beets into decorative flowers, she picked up a radish carnation, placed it on the chest of a beaming chef and burbled: "It's pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The First Lady's Own Tour | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

Sellers can present some justification for other price boosts, even though the rises annoy consumers. Sammy D's, an Italian restaurant in Minneapolis, last week began charging $2 for antipasto shared by two people, though the identical portion served to one diner remains price-frozen at $1.50. The restaurant labels the increase a "service charge." Many women are convinced that they are paying more for clothing, but "it is very difficult to pinpoint a cause for complaint," says Kitty Dobrina, a Cleveland fashion model. "Stores base the increases on changes in styles. A merchant will say that skirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Cracks in the Freeze | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

...brush up on some shortorder cookery from his early days in a diner. But he is soon humming cheerily about their split-level, swapping recipes, gossip and, yes, much, much more with the girls in the neighborhood. Limning a scene for the inevitable Walter Matthau film that should result from this book, De Vries offers a cuckolded husband bursting into the Banghart kitchen justly bent on vengeance, only to be disarmed and routed by Tomcat Al in a fluffy apron, just putting his potatoes on. "Mmyes?" says Al, delicately smoothing an eyebrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Is Company | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

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