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Swiss pineapple cheese cream scarcely sounds like a dish designed to go with German Schinken und Kartoffel. But, forewarned by trade journals, wise West German grocers are busily stocking up on the ingredients. After Clemens Wilmenrod, Der Fernsehkoch (The Television Cook), tells the Hausfrauen how to make it, Swiss cream is sure to be a favorite dessert-and Clemens plans to pass the word soon. The balding, Menjou-mustached, ample-jowled Fernsehkoch last week was well into his seventh year on the air, with the oldest and most popular show on West German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION ABROAD: Der Fernsehkoch | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Since then, every student at the school has been involved in Aktion Kartoffel-schale (Operation Potato Pee1). Each night they collected peels from their homes and from restaurants; each morning they lugged them to school to be weighed. For every 5.5 Ibs., a student would get one point, and one student earned as many as 250 points in the course of six months. Finally, the students had enough in the kitty (11,000 DM) to make a down payment on a new playground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Playground | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

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