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...onions. Last week, from Brooklyn to Baltimore, she had husbands drooling and wives making determined tries at filet de sole Walewska or crepes Suzette. Mrs. Lucas assumes, as most of her rivals hesitate to, that her watchers already know how to boil an egg, and are ready for something fancier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Airborne Recipes | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Grauer is a tired, pleasant, chainsmoking little (5 ft. 6 in.) man who looks something like George Jessel with hair. He is a bachelor, a bow-tie fancier, a tea-drinker and a raconteur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Handyman | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

When despair and bouncing checks begin to plague the card-fancier, he often takes deluded refuge in a poker game called "barber's itch." Here two people split the pot, and the rest split blue chips into red chips and red chips into bits of grimy paper...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...local sports writer's story three-handed Dick Harlow after the game simultaneously patted Ox DaGrosa's head, shook his hand, and stroked his shoulder. This probably was the neatest trick of the week even for a man referred to by another imaginative scribe as a "Machievellian fern fancier...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Purple Falls as Concrete Shows No Bloodstains | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...band, 24 torch-carriers, a Crimson bedecked Great Dane, and a vintage 1920 Buick, owned by Bill Currier '50, of Wigglesworth Hall, the procession wound through the Yard, across Massachusetts Avenue and down Holyoke Street. At the Bow Street triangle, the first casualty of the night, Dutch-tile fancier Clemens P. Woop '00, was seen limping into his sanctuary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Explosions, Yard Cops, Great Dane Highlight Noisy Pregame Scramble | 10/4/1947 | See Source »

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