Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the ragged populace scrabbling through Germany's ruins in desperate search for a single potato, and for that matter among leaders in most of the world's capitals, there were few who had much to say in those days about free enterprise. It was an idea that the Germans themselves had spurned from the moment Bismarck seized on the 19th century Economist Friedrich List's protectionist ideas to the hour that Hjalmar Schacht's totalitarian Autarkic collapsed with Hitler. U.S. experts laughed after listening to Erhard's spouting, or felt sorry for the pathetic...
Gordon himself came accidentally into book-selling on Harvard Square. In 1922, he left a potato inspector job in Manitoba to study first landscape architecture, then English literature at the Graduate School. He was more interested in reading than exams, however, and bought so many books that he had to rent a room for them. Much of the present collection is new, but a few books survive from his days in Divinity Hall. "Twenty-eight hundred books," he says, explaining the shop. "I had to do something with them. I sold one just the other week. This fellow came...
...sideshows during the three-week campaign. Among the barkers: eight-term Congressman Alvin O'Konski, 53, whose campaign manager decided to sell O'Konski's blend of domestic New Dealism and mossbacked foreign policy by television and newspaper spreads "just like you sell a new potato salad" (and brought him in third). Another was Gerald D. Lorge, 35, a "fighting marine" who fought a campaign in Joe McCarthy's image, came in sixth to discover what nearly everyone else realized: even in Wisconsin, McCarthyism is dead. But the stiffest battle came from young ex-Congressman Glenn...
...camp's cooks of the day lit the stove to fry the breakfast eggs, the two groups worked and played together, soon developed the camaraderie of foxhole cronies. They toured nearby castles and monasteries, gradually began to unburden themselves. Says one Oxonian: "When you sit over the same potato pan, peeling, you get to know a man. The most important thing is that as regards authority we are on the same side of the fence that they...
Even water is lacking to these country poor in the bitter postwar days. The old men smoke potato leaves. Food is a crust smeared with tomato pulp or dipped in hot wine. They hang about for days at the edges of fields hoping for jobs. Their priest begs lentils from door to door. On the Feast of St. Francis, the townspeople leave a hoarded egg white and the thistly cardoon as an offering. As Novelist Rimanelli spells it out, America with its fabulous giobbe (jobs) offers the one hope of earthly release from a doom of sweat, petty theft, envy...