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...Morris was in his 20s when he gave this account. The world was a rather large oyster for a lad without money to swallow, but Jed was the kind who would swallow it whole even if he choked. He splashed on the Marxist ketchup, and washed it all down with huge gulps of sex. Every night, after a furious day on the intellectual make, "he was in a hurry to go to sleep so that he would wake up and it would be tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unmaking of an American | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

Being practical types, they decide not to bury him under the sidewalk ("Aw-ya gotta kill him first"), but to finesse his extinction. One of the boys gets his father's rifle, lets Joey pull the trigger. Older brother Lennie falls down groaning, with a sinister smear of ketchup spreading on his chest. The others shout, "He's dead! You killed your brother, Joey!" Terrified. Joey runs home. No mother. Desperate, he grabs the $6 she left for them, and, hugging his trusty six-shooter, takes it on a lonesome lam that leads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 2, 1953 | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...calorie foods sweetened with saccharin and pectin instead of sugar. The products-ten fruits, four salad dressings, three jellies, four puddings, four gelatins, a chocolate topping-did so well (1953 sales are estimated at $8,000,000) that Flotill will soon add a low-calorie liquid sweetener, ketchup, maple syrup and soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Battle of the Bulge | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

...Hofstra College in Hempstead, L.I., the Crown and Lance fraternity planned its "Hell Week" hazing with care. After a nod of approval from their faculty sponsor, the fun-loving brothers daubed the heads and bellies of seven blindfolded pledges with a noxious mixture of ketchup, mustard, egg yolk and water. The pledges promptly broke out in skin blisters ; one got a badly burned eye. Suspecting that heavyhanded undergraduates had fouled up the recipe with lye or turpentine, the interfraternity council decreed that Hofstra will hereafter have no hazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...Simeon, where he rode with his father as a boy, Hearst decreed stately pleasure domes that would have awed Kubla Khan. He equipped the place with everything from giraffes to Roman baths, spent millions to give its vistas a Maxfield Parrish unreality-and insisted on paper napkins and ketchup bottles at the long refectory table because San Simeon was still "the ranch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The King Is Dead | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

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