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...increase in the dining rooms, and the sparkle of conversation would be supplemented by champagne and sparkling burgundy. Of course, the academic side of the University could help in its own small way with snifters before each class. Red wine before a meaty lecture, and white wine before a fowl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bordeaux to Go | 5/28/1954 | See Source »

...m.p.h., Lancia, Nazzaro, Victor Hemery and Louis Chevrolet. But the toplofty language of the racing notices enraged many a Long Island citizen from the first: "All persons are warned against using the roads between the hours of 5 a.m. and 3 p.m. . . . Chain your dogs and lock up your fowl." By 1910, more than the local farmers were embattled. That year, the crowds were so large and unmanageable that four spectators were killed, and 22 more ended up in hospitals. That race sounded the knell of U.S. road racing for many a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Millionaire at High Speed | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...wedding present proceeded to decorate the drab walls. His sketches were charming and nonabstract. In an odd corner he painted a thoroughly representational bloomer girl, to remind Jean of his bachelor days. In the bedroom he put a nude, and in the kitchen, still lifes of fish and fowl. In the living room the master did a ten-ft. allegorical mural in which Huguette Ramie is a medieval lady waving to Jean, a knight in shining armor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Life with Pablo | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

Grand Hotel. At a $75,000 white-tie party last week, the President formally opened the 400-room Hotel Tamanaco in the capital city of Caracas (pop.: 800,000). Two thousand guests drank champagne and Scotch, nibbled at 6,500 lbs. of meat and fowl. They were entertained by Parisian Chanteuse Patachou (who got $10,000 for a week's work). Colonel Pérez Jiménez, dressed in a braid-crusted white tunic and black trousers with a crimson stripe, himself danced the first rumba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Fiesta of Good Works | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

While all Chile watched for a week, 140 politicos poured into Coihueco to electioneer. The supply of fowl for the favorite local dish, cazuela de pava (turkey casserole), quickly ran out. and the wineshop had to replenish its stocks three times. The two spinsters who own Coihueco's only telephone took to their beds with aspirin, while reporters endlessly cranked the phone's old-style bell magneto. Business boomed. "Ah, to have elections every month!" said the merchants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Buy-Election | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

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