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January 7. Today was a productive one for Shulamith and me. Working around the clock, we induced strangulation in a mouse. This was accomplished by coaxing the rodent to ingest healthy portions of Gouda cheese and then making it laugh. Predictably, the food went down the wrong pipe, and choking occurred. Grasping the mouse firmly by the tail, I snapped it like a small whip, and the morsel of cheese came loose. Shulamith and I made voluminous notes on the experiment. If we can transfer the tailsnap procedure to humans, we may have something. Too early to tell...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: More Kugelmass | 10/3/1980 | See Source »

...profit margin of 20% by the end of this year; in three years, he expects his income to double. Ben Tre is a bit too quiet for Swanson's expansive Texas tastes, but friends back home keep him supplied with his favorite jalapeno peppers, pinto beans and Gouda cheese. "Once I get rich," he says, "I'll get good cigars shipped in from San Antonio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The New Expatriates | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

Stuffed tripe, boiled eggs, Edam and Gouda cheeses, several kinds of sausage, salt shakers filled with chocolate to sprinkle on the bread and butter-it was the usual Sunday breakfast enjoyed by a prosperous Dutch middle-class family. The quarrel raging over the breakfast table was recognizable too. The family did not really approve of daughter's fiance, and now the headstrong girl was demanding a big church wedding with all the family's most important friends invited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: The Headstrong Princess | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

...staff of four secretaries, one mathematician, and two servants, produces a daily column syndicated in 253 U.S. newspapers, writes books (Astrology and You), and at his Victorian Hollywood home throws splashy parties that seem to come from a more storied era when only the screen was silent. Gouda-bodied actresses sight down their cigarette holders at producers; social climbers pretend fascination with semiliterate stars. When Taurus is the sign of the time, there is a live bull on the front lawn, and when Leo reigns, a full-grown lion. For Scorpio last week, there was a crocodile as a stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Hi There, Sagittarius | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...Dutch business empire went to dozens of Emile Zimmermans, from London to Batavia, from Manhattan to Shanghai. This week, sleepless but hearty, Emile Zimmerman was able to give U. S. business a good, if sketchy, idea of readjustments in the empire while he drank coffee from office Gouda china in Manhattan's new Holland House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR FRONT: Can't Beat the Dutch | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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