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Pork & Potatoes. "A man's set up in life," says an old Newfie tag, "when he haves a pig an' a punt an' a potato patch." Through most of their history, Newfoundlanders have not had much more than these basic needs. They went out to the grounds and fished for cod. Some of the cod they ate themselves, with "crunchin's" of pork and potatoes. The rest they sold for cash to buy sugar, tea, wool for their homespun clothes, and an occasional keg of "screech" (Newfie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: In from the Sea | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...Albino ("The Oyster") Rossi and Marcello ("The Slipper") Bon, Italy's famed (for 400 years) gondola race; in Venice. , Winners for the sixth straight time, Rossi and Bon received an all-too-familiar prize: a suckling pig, plus 300,000 lira...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...were charged with receiving stolen goods and are scheduled to go on trial shortly. Police located the youths after a lead pig was discovered in the backyard of one. The six will be brought before the Police Juvenile Committee for judgement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Youths Arrested For Taking Lead Bars From Business School | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Poor Man's. For President, Henry Krajewski, Secaucus, N. J. pig farmer and tavern owner (TIME, March 17); for Vice President, Frank Jenkins of Rahway, N. J. Krajewski-whose campaign buttons read "For President Krajewski I Like"-has gotten his ticket on only one state ballot (New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: It's a Free Country | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

Tale," Hir shoes were laced on hir legges hye;/ She was a prymerole, a pigges-nye, Coghill, aware that no modern woman would care to be compared to a pig's eye, freshens her up like this: High shoes she wore, and laced them to the top./ She was a daisy, () a lollipop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lollipop Chaucer | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

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