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...hours, nursing their beers and feeding schillings to the mechanical monsters. Current hits: Three Coins in the Fountain, Ko Ko Mo and I Love Paris (in the springtime). There are those who deplore the jukebox (which is known as "Musikautomat") as further evidence that civilization is in schrecklich shape. But Vienna's present-day songwriters (not a Strauss among them) are jazzing up older tunes for jukebox use and, in the process, are demonstrating that they can be fairly schrecklich on their own. Current sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Danube Blues | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...staid Germans, who find gum-chewing G.I.s and tourists unspeakably schrecklich, the German Medical Association had a shocking announcement. Despite the bad effect of sugar coating, "Chewing inspires the flow of saliva and thereby improves the teeth-cleaning process. [It] makes teeth more sound, now that people no longer eat hard food or chew their food thoroughly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...embarrassed retorts of English appeasers of a few years ago to "Van's" vigorous realism about Germany. One would think that his recent book-which has a very clear chapter about what "Vansittartism" is and is not-was enough to dispose of the myth that there is anything schrecklich about his proposals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 1, 1945 | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

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