Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actually eat better here than in the dorms," they claim. Helpings of food are plentiful, and there is the added attraction of raiding the icebox between meals. Peanut butter, crackers, and fruit are to be had for the taking at Peach House. Girls sign up for the things they take and the cost is apportioned at the end of the year. Harvard men often appear as guests at meals, and generally seem impressed with the domestic talents of the girls...
...conditioning and seal themselves in their house, with occasional trips to the immense swimming pool at the nearby Hubara Club. "We go to Kuwait once a week," Mrs. Jackson says. "There's a store called Jolly Brothers where we can get Campbell's soup, American coffee, peanut butter, jelly and saltine crackers...
From the South, the robed riders of the Klan came over the border of North Carolina on a hot July night in 1950. A column of 30-odd cars carried the Ku Kluxers through tobacco, cotton, peanut and sweet potato fields, then drove slowly along the streets of Tabor City (pop. 2,028), a sleepy Tarheel town that likes to call itself the "yam capital of the world...
...week, music piped in for 15 minutes of every hour, a cafeteria with low-priced good food. (There used to be a free mid-morning snack of milk and vitamin-enriched peanut-butter sandwiches, but the staff began to look like sofas.) On the walls of individual offices, and in the corridors, hang paintings by such modern masters as Renoir, Braque and Chagall. "My God!" cried an astounded visitor. "Is this a place of business or a girls' seminary...
...tall, is typical of Manhattan's 4,000-odd TV performers who get just enough parts to keep their hopes up, but not enough for a reliable livelihood. As a result, many of them take time out from haunting producers' offices to do part-time work as peanut vendors, sightseeing guides, sales clerks, doormen and soda jerks. Miller differs from the rest mainly in the choice of his principal sideline, which puts him on TV screens nearly as much as his acting in such shows as Stop the Music and Lux Video Theater...