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Said one Managua observer: "[The election] is already stolen." Asked his choice of the two candidates, a Nicaraguan exile said: "It is like being asked which you would rather use to eat soup, a knife or a fork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Leave of Absence | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

Like Toscanini, Steinberg never uses a score. Though his performances lack the Maestro's tuning-fork luster, he conducts with much the same bombastic vigor. To give cues, he waggles his head like an angry steer. At opera rehearsals he brays himself hoarse singing the leading roles stopping occasionally to munch a dry slice of pumpernickel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscanini Favorite | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...ready pint or quart; that mixed drinks are served at the Rainbo, the Northern Star, the It'll Do Club; that to get a fifth of Old Granddad (unavailable in Kansas City) at Meadow Acres Ballroom, all you have to do is beckon the "Soup Man" and fork over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Hotfoot | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

King George did not use his knife and fork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: King of Calypso | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...People are liberal now in this country," Straight says. "But they don't always know what they're liberal about. We want to develop a political program for liberals, stop handing out the line with a shovel, and start using a fork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New New Republic | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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