Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubt that Fred Allen was in television to stay. The challenge to current TV King Milton Berle, who began a new winter series last week, seemed clear enough. Old Campaigner Allen may yet demonstrate that TV needs a little lemon juice to cut the taste of so much custard pie...
Hearing that a group of 300 young U.S. sightseers had been stranded in her bailiwick, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta quickly opened a lunch counter at the U.S. legation, doled out free baked beans, ham sandwiches, apple pie and coffee. Said Hostess Mesta: "No American boy or girl is going to be hungry in Luxembourg if I can prevent...
Michigan. Competing stoutly against a bevy of capable housewives, Clifford Sterns, a young bachelor who drives a school bus for a living, won four blue ribbons at the Monroe County Fair: for his baking-powder biscuits, chocolate cake, spice cake and berry pie. His apple pie was only third. Detroit's Welfare Superintendent set about investigating 50 overweight women on the city's welfare rolls, who get an extra $3.30 every fortnight to buy nonfattening foods, discovered they had made no progress whatever in losing weight. "Maybe in this weather," he conjectured, "they can't resist...
...Tisch Hinterhaus, a luncheon club meeting regularly at Luchow's, I have been authorized to refute Mr. Mencken's dire prediction that civilization is coming to an end with the aforementioned sale. To the contrary ... the only change noticed recently is that the portion of Coconut Cream Pie (regularly served on Fridays since time immemorial) is a quarter of an inch larger...
...pie would not bake. Van Zeeland reported a total failure to Regent Prince Charles, advised a new election. The election was scheduled for June 4. It would be the third vote on the royal question within a year. Sensible Belgians, who were not letting their prolonged constitutional crisis affect their continued economic prosperity, were saying: "The English work for their government, the French work against their government, but we Belgians work despite our government...