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Michel Serebecbere, maître d' of the Maurice Restaurant in New York City's posh Parker Meridien Hotel, last year noticed that business people were desperate for anything to take notes on during breakfast and luncheon meetings. They resorted to envelopes, blank checks or even $20 bills. Now executives find something more convenient. Sitting on the tables next to the salt and pepper is a small (2½ in. by 4¼ in.) gray-beige note pad with the legend, "Notes While Dining at the Maurice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Duly Noted | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...former prefer eating bread with the butter facing up while the latter like their butter facing down. The Yooks and Zooks devise bigger and more outrageous war machines, until each holds a Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo "filled with mysterious Moo-Lacka-Moo" capable of blowing the other to Sala-ma-goo. Says Geisel: "I don't know if it's an adult book for children or a children's book for adults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 12, 1984 | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...loads would be as displaced in Douglas Unger's first novel as they were in The Grapes of Wrath, though Ma, Pa and Tom might not understand how it was possible to become outcasts of national prosperity. For generations, the land around Unger's Nowell, S. Dak., has produced an abundance of wheat and corn. During World War II, a need for a fast, cheap protein spurs the Government to subsidize an increase in turkey raising. The larger output can easily be handled at the local processing plant, owned by Safe-buy, an early entrant in agribusiness. Eventually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doakies | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

There are 800 songs in this remarkable volume, and naturally many of them deserve their place at the bottom of the trunk. Who but a historian will ever want to hear The Social Coach of All.the Fashionable Future Debutantes or Since Ma Got the Craze Espagnole? But the best remain fresh and audacious in form as well as style. Begin the Beguine was the longest popular song ever written: 108 measures, as against the standard 32. Night and Day has an A-B-A-B-C-B rhyme scheme, rarely heard before or since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Soul of Cole and No | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

Seldom has anything so big ended so unceremoniously or uneventfully. Ma Bell simply walked offstage after 107 years, to no applause and no disruption in service. Millions of Americans picked up their telephones on New Year's Day and still got dial tones, as if nothing had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

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