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...river Elster were all recognizably Jewish. These 80 American Jews had already been segregated into a separate barracks at the POW camp, despite the attempts by some of them to destroy their dog tags—which the U.S. Army had engraved with an “H?? for Hebrew. Many lied about their “race” when interrogated. In one instance, a soldier buried his Army-issue Jewish prayer book in the dirt of Germany...

Author: By Alexandra B. Moss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: GIs Passed Over by History | 4/20/2005 | See Source »

...Jerry's is getting fat on America's growing appetite for so-called super-premium ice cream, brands made with natural ingredients and plenty of butterfat. H??agen-Dazs, the ice cream that has the pseudo-Scandinavian name but is made in America by Pillsbury, pioneered the superpremium field and spawned such imitators as Frusen Gldj from Dart & Kraft and Alpen Zauber, which is produced by a small Brooklyn company. Americans last year gobbled an estimated 66 million gal. of superpremium ice cream, up about 12% from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Stock Scoop for Ice Cream | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...while H??agen-Dazs has catered to customers who think that gourmet foods are chic, Ben & Jerry's has tried to create an image of simple, down-home wholesomeness. Instead of being decorated with a map of Scandinavia, Ben & Jerry's cartons show a picture of the two be spectacled, bushy-haired owners, who look like refugees from a '60s commune. Pals since they were in high school in Merrick, N.Y., Cohen and Greenfield decided in 1977 that making ice cream would be more fun than what they were doing. Having failed to get into medical school, Greenfield was then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Stock Scoop for Ice Cream | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

When Ben & Jerry's began expanding rapidly in the 1980s, the company got a frosty reception from its bigger competitors. Cohen and Greenfield charged last year that Pillsbury was trying to keep a lock on the Boston market by threatening to cut off supplies of H??agen-Dazs to distributors who also carried Ben & Jerry's. Turning adversity into a publicity ploy, Ben & Jerry's gave customers thousands of T shirts and bumper stickers that poked fun at the Pillsbury corporate symbol by asking: WHAT'S THE DOUGH BOY AFRAID OF? Without admitting any wrongdoing, Pillsbury settled the complaint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Stock Scoop for Ice Cream | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...called the tango. Not the basic dance you learned at Arthur Murray. This is the tango that got its start in the bordellos of Buenos Aires a century ago and even today seems almost shocking in its arrant sensuality. "The tango expresses something deep in our personalities," says H??ctor Orezzoli, who conceived the revue along with his friend Claudio Segovia. "The dance is tortuous, complicated, intricate, mysterious, rough, but also sophisticated and full of humor and irony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Love Those Crazy Steps | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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