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...University of California's IRA B. CROSS, 70, who in the last 37 years has driven and inspired more than 50,000 students to mastering their basic economics. A fierce and spluttery lecturer, "the Doc" was also a pushover for bad puns ("The man who invented spaghetti used the noodle"), an authority on "aids to lazy gardening," the sworn enemy of coeds who powdered their noses in class and of graduate students who married girls without money ("I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

Since the same spaghetti had been served at Saturday's dinner, head resident Mrs. Katherine Fernstrom has registered a complaint with the dietician...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spaghetti Victimizes Moors Hall Residents | 5/9/1951 | See Source »

Intense internal upset throughout the dormitory seemed to result from the meatball and spaghetti dish served at Monday's lunch, as those who were not there for that meal reported no ill effects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spaghetti Victimizes Moors Hall Residents | 5/9/1951 | See Source »

...painting reasonably realistic and somewhat prosaic still lifes and portraits. Since then, he has taken to reducing scenes and figures to luminous scribbles and to producing out & out abstractions-loose, slippery tangles of white lines that look as if they might have been inspired by a dish of spaghetti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Seattle Tangler | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...moved to the fashionable Maumee River section of the city, buying a big white stucco house with "the biggest mortgage on the block." There, some 25 Di Salles of three generations 'and any number of guests converge on weekends. They devour mountains of Myrtle's antipasto, prosciutto, spaghetti, pork and chicken, and then, with a pot of caffe espresso at hand, swim for the rest of the afternoon in the warm gurgling current of Italo-American argument and gossip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: What Have I Got to Lose? | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

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