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Betty (The Egg and I) MacDonald, whose airy literary omelet is the nation's favorite dish, got a deep bow from her adopted state of Washington. The governor, the mayor and the president of the state Farmers' Association were among the benders-from-the-waist at eating and oratorical festivities in Seattle. Authoress MacDonald watched what she ate; after five years of staggering headaches she had discovered the trouble: she was allergic to eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Regards to Broadway | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...Ernst's prizewinner was an expert nightmare (see cut). Runners-up: Belgian Paul Delvaux, who sent a study of three disarmingly naked, disarmingly beautiful women in a ruined, neo-classical landscape; Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, for an ulcerous omelet of flesh, fish, snakes and rodents; Salvador Dali, whose desert caravan of spider-legged elephants "carrying on their backs erotic fountains, obelisks, churches and escorials" (see cut) for once was pretty comprehensible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Temptations of St. Anthony | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...weeks the New York Herald Tribune sport page has dished up a weekly news omelet for G.I. Joe. Jampacked into a double column box, to be clipped and mailed overseas, were sport highlights, reported in a motley cablese. G.I.s liked it.'Last week Sports Editor Stanley ("Old Coach") Woodward wrote his farewell Weekly Overseas Sports Letter, thus summarized football's finals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bowls & Bye-Bye | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...Electric Omelet. In Manhattan, Ashley Jackson started home with half a case of eggs, had a few drinks, saw an electric fan, couldn't resist, got 20 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 29, 1945 | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

Readers of Hearst's American Weekly (circ. 8,135,982) whose Sunday breakfast is a pumped-up omelet of cornfield murders, betrayed maidens, prehistoric monsters and the evils of vivisection, are going to get more herbs with their eggs. A new publisher is in the kitchen. He is 63-year-old Walter Howey, onetime holy terror of Chicago journalism, and the real-life model of Front Page's brash, blustery managing editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Will the Ice Age Return? | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

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