Word: lunching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tallu at Lunch...
Manhattan businessmen will be able to commute to San Francisco for lunch, be back home after an afternoon's work in time for bed. Weekend flights to London and Paris will be as easy-perhaps easier -than weekend drives to the country in jam-packed Sunday traffic...
Smith is equally terse in social conversation. A visitor who recently had lunch with him asked what kind of work his father had done. Answered Smith: "As little as possible." Asked what sort of person his mother was, he replied: "Well, I liked...
...book-author lunch in Manhattan not long ago, Vladimir Nabokov faced a formidable force of 1,000 literature-loving women, and when it was announced that, as a feature of the lunch, one of them had won an autographed copy of Lolita, the excited "ooooh" could be heard all the way to Larchmont. Few novels have stirred up so much critical controversy as Nabokov's account of a middle-aged psychopath's passion for a gum-chewing, teenage "nymphet" (TIME, Sept...
...stretchers, swathed in blankets, their eyes shielded to prevent permanent damage from glaring camera lights, the twelve began to emerge from their 4-ft.-high culdesac. Doctors found the men an average 10 Ibs. lighter but in surprisingly good shape. They had found enough food in their own lunch pails and in those of dead companions in the chamber for four days, enough water, when rationed from a tiny aspirin bottle, to last almost as long. Said one survivor proudly: "No man took more than his share." Toward the last they gathered their own urine in tin cups, sipped...