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Bringing Home the Mangel-Wurzel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 26, 1954 | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...article on Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler, TIME [April 5] says: "He spent summers picking mangel-wurzels." This evokes a picture of long summer days spent gathering something resembling scuppernongs. Does TIME imagine that mangel-wurzels grow on trees, or on vines? A mangel-wurzel is a variety of beet, only larger and considerably less tasty, grown as a cattle food. A mangel-wurzel is a stubborn root that parts company with the earth only after a vigorous tussle, and I don't envy Rab Butler his summer, even though he was paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 26, 1954 | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

Politics & Mangel-Wurzels. Rab was born Dec. 9, 1902, in the mud-walled village of Attock Serai in northwest India (now Pakistan). The Butlers were a famous family in India. Rab's father, the late Sir Montagu S. D. Butler, became a governor of the Central Provinces, and was knighted for his services before going home to become a master of Cambridge's Pembroke College. His uncle, a close friend of Nehru's father, became governor of Burma. His Scottish mother was related to the great liberal economist Adam Smith. The eldest of four children, young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The New Tory | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

Riches more than mind can picture, Wheat and barley, oats and hay, Clover, beans and mangel-wurzels Shall be ours upon that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dictatorship of the Animals | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

British flower farmers have dug up their precious flower bulbs and have planted root crops-swedes, turnips, mangel-wurzels, oats and onions. But some fields still blaze with flowers, and black marketers from the city offer high prices. Snorted one Cornish farmer: "Maybe there were a few who took the chance of making an easy pound when it was offered to them, but the rest of us sold nothing to them 'foreigners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blooming Black Market | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

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