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anonymous erranded, eat sandwich and drink beer near New Yorker Hotel or walk under the shadow of Empire State...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: Books Scenes Along the Road | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

...woman will smile and bring you coffee while your waitress waddles over in her Elizabethan pantaloons. A glance down the menu reveals nothing exotic-just square Middle American fare. The only ethnic flavor maybe is a pale, faint hint of Pennsylvania Dutch that is suggested by the filling hot sandwiches and gravybread. The hot roast beef sandwich comes with a good bowl of French onion soup, the sopped bread floating on the top. Even if it does not quite match the Maitre Jacques version (it needs melted cheese), the soup contributes substantially to a rather cheap meal...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: The Square As You Like It | 12/8/1970 | See Source »

While dramatic series have become drearier, commercials have developed into the sprightliest little plays on television. These days, many a viewer is tempted to leave his set during the first half of The Brady Bunch, fix a sandwich, pour a beer and then hurry back to watch these entertaining dramas in miniature. Actress Alice Playten, for example, has become nationally famous as the bride in the Alka-Seltzer ad who lies in bed breathlessly reliving the triumph of her first home-cooked meal-particularly a single, monumental dumpling. Behind her back, the uncomfortable husband surreptitiously gulps a fizzy glassful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Reviewing the Commercials | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

...Princeton, so by the two-mile point, the Tigers' Dennis O'Brien, who was third, was the only opponent whom Harvard had to pay much attention to. "It was settled a little more quickly than I had expected," McCurdy admitted after finishing his victory peanut butter and jelly sandwich...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Cross Country Team Has Little Trouble Winning Another Big Three Championship | 10/31/1970 | See Source »

Then the line stops, and Belcher gets 30 unpaid minutes to eat. That is not long enough for him to walk down from his sixth-floor work station to the second-floor cafeteria, buy a hot meal and get back before the line starts again. So he munches a sandwich from a bag-often while standing at the back of one of the long lines of men waiting to use the urinals. The chance to visit the bathroom cannot be passed up, since Belcher can rarely leave the assembly line. Besides the lunch period, he gets breaks of eleven minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Grueling Life on the Line | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

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