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...known that some animals are nicer than others. So it is with anthologies; they are compiled for those who have been taught to be kind to writers but are nervous as to whether they will be rewarded with a snarl or a civet effluvium in return for the proffered peanut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Concern for Truth | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

Cambridge hangers-on this vacation woke each morning (usually around 10 a.m.) in pleasant anticipation of the breakfast waiting for them in the Leverett House dining hall. It was a humble meal, coffee, toast, butter, jam, peanut butter, and juice, but it was there from 9 to 11 a.m. and certainly preferable to the dry tongue a late riser must live with now that the dining halls are back on their regular schedules...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Just a Little Jam | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...only thing Geiberger had to worry about after that was running out of peanut butter and jelly. He polished off two sandwiches during the last 18 holes, shot a steady 72 for an even-par total of 280 and a four-stroke victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Don't Forget the Sandwiches | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...swears by a diet of buffalo steak and mooseburger. Last week at Akron's Firestone Country Club, Al Geiberger, 28, won the big gest prize of his seven-year pro career -the $25,000 P.G.A. championship - and announced that he owed it all to peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Don't Forget the Sandwiches | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...says, "so I had my wife make me up a lunch." He wound up winning $59,699 in 1965. Nibbling sandwiches between shots, Al insists, has a tranquilizing effect: "If I don't eat I get nervous, and when I get nervous I make bad decisions." Why peanut butter and jelly? "If you forget and leave them in your golf bag," says Al, "you can still eat them the next day. You can't do that with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Don't Forget the Sandwiches | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

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