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Although you might be tempted to treat the neatly-printed from as merely light reading over a trayful of baked macaroni and cheese, this little questionnaire has been gotten up with an extremely sensible care. The first question, for example, runs: "Are you interested in attending student-produced plays at Harvard? Yes? No?" There's the whole problem. You can circle "No" and concentrate on the macaroni. If you consider yourself a wit, there's plenty of shiny white space and a number of detailed questions that can be answered hilariously with a fine-pointed pencil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 1/14/1947 | See Source »

...photographers, saying with authority: "That's bad farm practice." Experts agreed that Butch was no authority, but no one minded that. He watched a parade of trucks poop-poop through Climax loaded with 20,000 bushels of wheat. He made a speech, waving a few pieces of macaroni: "This is a day's ration in many places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Butch Goes West | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...each of the country's one thousand richest citizens to get additional backing for the currency. By last week the gold cure seemed to be working. In general, prices had stabilized. Cheese, butter and eggs were still high in Athens, but prices of peas, beans and macaroni were steady and Allied shipments of food and civilian goods, which will help keep prices down, were steadily increasing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deflation in Greece | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

What Price Unity? In proletarian Paris the people dine on soup, macaroni, maybe a little bread and sour wine. But among Communist leaders there is confidence in approaching victory. The Communist Party is the only party which is well organized, and has a program. It is growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Suspense | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

...fewer calories, more vitamins and minerals. Good foods for oldsters: mild cheeses, milk, lean meat, butter, scrambled eggs, macaroni, well-cooked vegetables, stewed fruits, raw bananas. Blacklisted: hard-boiled eggs, raw or smoked meat, raw vegetables, rich cheeses. Dr. Gumpert advises breakfast in bed, a hearty lunch, light supper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life Begins at 60 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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