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...Traditional critic's rejoinder: "You don't have to be a good cook to judge an omelet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Master Mechanic | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...Strong as Possible. The reference to "some men" in the present government was enough to start Pleven on the second stage of his search for a painless transition. He called on Robert Schuman. Over an austere Schuman dinner of soup, omelet, vegetables and mineral water, Pleven proposed his deal. Schuman was undecided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Painless Transition? | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

From then on in Paris, everyone from cab drivers to nightclub operators exchanged dollars at the black-market rate. He found Parisian food mostly good, cheap in second-class restaurants in terms of the black-market exchange. Sample supper menu: vegetable soup (watery); green salad (wonderful); cheese omelet (out of this world); white wine, small coffee, patisserie. Cost for two: $2.50. The hotel bill for four days was 3,003 francs ($13 black market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Road to Capri | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Last week, in an office in the gloomy Chamber of Deputies, aged (74), ailing Premier Leon Blum ruminated wearily over a light dinner of mushroom omelet, plain lettuce salad and toast, then confided in a tired whisper: "An omelet is easier to make than a Cabinet . . . things are more complicated than I thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Omelets | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...grand old man had given the party fresh spirit. But had he satisfied the party's "Young Turks"? If, indeed, the party did regain power, what was to be done about the nationalization already in effect? Said one young delegate: "We can't very well unscramble that omelet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Old Man, New Policy | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

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