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...have resisted for some weeks the temptation to tell my own English muffin story, but feel unable to do so any longer. while studying in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I occasionally ate at a cafe run by a number of hyphenated-Americans who have origins ultimately traceable to Ireland. The customers, too, were mostly "Irishmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPREADING FAME OF THE BICK DEPT. | 5/2/1958 | See Source »

...dispose of the evidence when the village spinster (Mildred Natwick) strolls by and. noticing Harry's distant manner, inquires politely, "What seems to be the trouble?" The captain explains, and the lady is most understanding. Their eyes meet. She blushes and offers him tea and a sympathetic muffin-after work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 7, 1955 | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

Benny's clothes are tailor-made; his miniature poodles, Muffin and Petit Pain, are white as suds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Jan. 5, 1953 | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...methodical, plodding show that once prompted Lloyd Mangrum to say to Bobby: "You're the only man I've ever seen who looked like he was shooting an 80 and came in with a 70." In Chicago last week, the man his fellow pros call "Old Muffin Face" came in with something better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bobby Is Back | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...husky, caressing voice murmurs: "Hello, muffin, this is your lonesome gal. How are you tonight, baby? Your lonesome gal loves you better than anybody in the world, just remember that . . ." These fudgelike endearments, dripping from U.S. radios every weekday night, cause chest flutterings and glassy stares in cross-country truck-and-trailer rigs, diners, Army barracks and teen-age bedrooms from El Pasp to Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: How Are You, Baby? | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

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