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...tins of pork luncheon meat to make one sandwich, gallon tins of fruit juice for one swallow. Outside one warehouse, a black-bearded U.S. sergeant dug his plastic C-ration spoon into a 10-lb. tin of corned beef with the delicate disdain of an overweight debutante at a smörgasbord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Like a Fire Drill | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...order. Instead of a bigwig party, the ambassador invited the painters, plasterers and carpenters who had remodeled her house (90 in all, including wives). Dressed in their Sunday best, the guests flocked in, shook hands with the American diplomat and her husband, Artist John Anderson, tackled the smörgåsbord, Cokes and aquavit, sang folk songs around the grand piano in the salon, watched documentary movies about New York, baseball and Hawaii. It was 2 a.m. when the party broke up. As the happy guests filed out, each received from hostess and host a pound of American-brand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHANCELLERIES: Cokes & Smorgasbord | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...sometimes an hour or so ahead, Skaarup and Winther had listened to U.S. newscasts and radio comedians, swapped letters with Variety's Editor Abel Green and studied his slangy tradepaper of "show biz." (Said Green, washing his hands of some of their definitions: "They're talking smörgasbord slanguage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Agazed and Eujifferous | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...SM 3/C) EDWIN PALMGREN (RM 2/C) WILLIAM A. SCHLEIMER c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1946 | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

...MacKinnon Day was just beginning. The Lutheran Ladies' Aid gave a smörgäsbord. The Monday Study Club gave a reception. School was closed and children gathered at the Village Hall, presented the Doc with a 21-jewel Hamilton watch and sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WISCONSIN: Country Doctor | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

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