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...retrospection and prophecy of the top floor, crammed with pretzel-shaped, chair-sized chips of plywood (to demonstrate the versatility of wood molders); pat-the-bunny samples of various materials; early modern chairs whose box-kitelike form suggested early abstract paintings-and a chair whose fishnet seat (draped over a pneumatic, plastic doughnut) was surrealistically adapted to the most unsurrealistic sitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Public Utility | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...Port Washington, N.Y., a first-grade teacher, despairing of teaching her youngest pupil to read numbers, enlisted the aid of the boy's father. The father wrote "3" on the blackboard. "Three," said the son. The father wrote "5." "Five," said the son. The father wrote "8.""Pretzel," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 17, 1944 | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...remember when the game was known as kittenball among Chicago's early devotees. Other things that Patron Wrigley objected to were the unladylike costumes affected by the players and the undignified names their sponsors tagged on them - such as Slapsie. Maxie's Curvaceous Cuties, the Num Num Pretzel Girls, Barney Ross's Adorables and the Dr. Pepper Girls of Miami Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ladies of the Little Diamond | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...other news of pretzel bending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Clear Case | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...lazy war," plumped for a near-confisca-tory war tax on "the well-to-do & the rich," said she was for drafting "all capital, profits & plants" if labor was to be drafted, and ticked off the war manpower commission as a "small but apparently indissolvable group of waltzing mice & pretzel benders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fortunes of War | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

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