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...middle-class couple went fishing. The husband caught a fat ten-pound dorado, gloated: "We'll have it with baked potatoes." Replied his wife: "You can't get potatoes for love or money-couldn't for months." "All right," said the husband, "let's have it fried, and eat it with vegetables." "But," said the wife, "there haven't been any vegetables in town since the truck gardeners went on strike." "Oh well," said the husband, "then just fry it in oil." The wife's answer: "There's none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Viva Per | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...Mexican gold rush was no El Dorado. U.S. ball players, who started the season playing the fancy kind of ball Boss Jorge Pasquel paid them for, by last week were looking pretty sad. The league's leading batter (.383) was Cuba's Claro Duany; and the only high-priced U.S. batsman who was close was ex-Giant Nap Reyes (.375). Onetime major leaguers Luis Olmo, Danny Gardella and George Hausmann had sagged fought, out of the .300 class. The Card's fugitive Max Lanier had won six and lost one, but some of the home-grown pitchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Altitude, Attitude | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...Kicks. Operating boss of this cleanup job is slow-talking, 52-year-old Brigadier General Frank Johnson McSherry, who was born in El Dorado Springs, Mo., fought in World War I, in 1942 served in Washington as director of operations for tRe War Manpower Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OCCUPATION: Cleanup Man | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

...Dorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Of Pullmans and Beaux | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

HELEN J. NIMBERGER 2nd Lieutenant, W.A.C. El Dorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: San Diego, Calif. | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

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