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...Hiya cat, wipe ya feet on the mat, let's slap on the fat and dish out some scat. You're a prisoner of wov, W-O-V, 1280 on the dial, New York, and you're picking up the hard spiel and good deal of Fred Robbins, dispensing seven score and ten ticks of ecstatic static and spectacular vernacular from 6:30 to 9 every black on the 1280 Club. . . . We got stacks of lacquer crackers on the fire, so hang out your hearing flap while His Majesty salivates a neat reed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prisoners of WOV | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...earns less than $1 a day, to show you his week's ration of food at controlled prices. He can put it in a soup plate. His wife may serve to a guest the best dinner they have had in weeks-soup with meat and noodles, a dish of chickpeas, cabbage and sausage, with an orange for dessert. To buy that meal for four people, he had to spend $2.28 on the black market. And in his household, where two people work, the combined income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Behind the Windbreaks | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...Deep Dish. In Tuckahoe, N.Y., Mrs. Lathrop Barnaskey heard a crash in her cellar, found that a pastry truck had filled her coal bin with pies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 9, 1946 | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...woman trouble there'll be Steve's secretary, a tasty Samoan dish named Feeta Feeta. Harder to handle will be Copper Calhoon, "not exactly a good girl, yet within the legal limits. She's the daughter of a Wall Street wolf and just as tough as her old man. It's much easier to make a gal a baddie than a goodie. My plots are complicated. You've got to read it every day so that you'll know what happens. Make it so they can't stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Not for Kids | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...Meat. In Chicago, Lincoln Park Zoo Director R. Marlin Perkins pooh-poohed the meat shortage, recommended his favorite dish : fried rattlesnake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 28, 1946 | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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