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...hand to look at him. After reviewing the troops he stood up in a camouflaged armored car and led them all in patriotic songs. Then, in monstrous high spirits, he strode into a troopers' canteen and, sitting on a log like the lowliest man, stuffed himself with hardtack, spaghetti, broccoli. Later he returned to his plane, pulled his flying togs over his uniform, and took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Instructors in the Balkans | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

When Fascist Italy was short of wheat, Futurist Marinetti cried out against spaghetti, warning that it was farinaceous, fattening and foolish-making, that in the next war "the most nimble people will win." In a campaign against conservative, bourgeois dress, he manifestoed in favor of aluminum neckties. In support of Fascist flag-waving, he manifestoed in favor of a national cocktail composed of red, white and green liquors. And when Italy went on the warpath for an Ethiopian Empire, he signed up and went to East Africa, busy with "ideas for Army headgear of celluloid and air-cooled aluminum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Who Sings War | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...Cheap food is cheaper, easier to find, in more places. Adequate lunch at a place with tablecloths: 75?. Prize food buy for the thrifty was at the new 5 and 10 Cent Restaurant (10? items: spaghetti, pork chops, beef stew, meat loaf). (Said a tough Manhattan moppet on opening day: "Five cents for meatballs! They should give us hamburgers!"). Hamburgers cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Forty Fair | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Grover Whalen wanted Curley to do an English country dance on the Magna Charta at the New York World's Fair. Lepidopterists marveled at Curley's maxillae. People began selling Curley balloons, spaghetti, dolls, toys, picture books. The D. A. R. and the American Legion sent Curley a silver-plated twig and a miniature American flag. When a cinema short on Curley was released, during a time of blizzards and rainstorms, Variety headlined: BLIZ AND DRIZ FAIL TO FIZZLE BIZ AS BUG WOWS B. 0. [box office] FROM N. Y. TO L. A. Walt Disney gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Curley the Caterpillar | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...breakfast consists of about two pounds of fruit, and caffe e latte (half-&-half coffee and milk); for lunch spaghetti, rarely meat and seldom wine, a huge salad, fruit for dessert; for dinner about the same things as for lunch, and fruit and milk before retiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: No. 1 Facist | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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