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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Will you please tell me what the hell is the use for parents and teachers to spend time instructing their children not to lick their fingers, and then to see you print a picture of the President licking his at the $100-a-plate Republican dinner [TIME, Oct. 26]? Surely there must have been a napkin lying around somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...family. Then everybody sat down to a solid country dinner-fried chicken, acorn squash, mashed potatoes, string beans with bacon drippings, cider and green apple pie. King Paul explained that he preferred white meat, but the Queen, he said, liked dark meat, and "between us, we lick the platter clean." Then, to the astonishment of the Smiths, he recited the Jack Sprat nursery rhyme and promptly cleaned his own platter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Nothing but Cadillacs | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...years. Sunkist's researchers are at work on the orange mystery, trying to discover if it is the smog, the lack of rain, or some unnamed malady that stunts the oranges. But Sunkist's 14,000 fruit growers are sure that Armstrong and his researchers will lick these problems, as they have others in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Pyramid in the Sun | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...hard-to-spot "control" and "inquisition" points as well as visiting synagogues along the way. At each control point, teams had to perform some action correctly: waving a handkerchief, snatching a brass ring while driving at 9 m.p.h., buying a stick of candy (but drivers who sneaked a lick en route had it scored against them). At each of five inquisition points, teams had to answer a question. The questions: 1) When was the state of Israel founded? 2) Who is the President of Israel? 3 ) How many candles are there in Hanukah lights? 4) What is the difference between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Inquisition | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

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