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Like many a little king, Joe Di Giorgio was not satisfied, although he grows more plums and Bartlett pears than anybody else in California, more oranges and grapefruit than anybody else in Florida, more grapes than anybody else on earth. So he was spending more than $1,000,000 for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMING: The Fruit King | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

The Lord Mayor brought two ripe yellow bananas back with him to the town hall, and a few lucky kids did some dockside sampling. Consensus: "Better than pears." One twelve-year-old's joyful munching was recorded on the spot by BBC.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bananas Are Back | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

They were unusual children: their arms reached to their ankles, their heads were in the shape of pears. Their savage mouths gave even the good Monsignor pause. In their hands, as weapons, they carried sharp, long thorns of the támara tree. They spoke no recognizable language. But they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Jungle Tale | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

As some Renaissance painters never tired of painting the same Madonna again & again, Velasco concentrated a lifetime of work on one stretch of landscape: the Valley of Mexico. He always saw something new in its pines and pepper trees, the pure, cold light, the ancient volcanoes, the cactus maguey and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Man of the Valley | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

Recent tests show that facts presented in picture strips are (at first reading) grasped 10% to 30% more thoroughly than the same facts presented in words alone. And even the comic strips which offer only fantasy and adventure are not without their cultural value, argues Psychiatrist Lauretta Bender of New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Comic Culture | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

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