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...thinnest person I had ever seen: she looked like these pictures from the concentration camps, except that her body was all by itself, and it was green. The skin just flopped ever her bones like the stuff you pick off the top of cocoa with your spoon...

Author: By R.andrew Beyer, | Title: The Lion Rampant | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

When Germany's Peter Siegert, 26, boldly announced that he would lead a party up the "elevator route," the Italian Scoiattoli (literally, "squirrels") predicted that they would "scrape his remnants off the wall with a spoon." Not if Siegert could help it. For his team, he recruited two Munich friends with whom he had escaped from East Germany seven years ago: a lightning-rod fitter named Rainer Kauschke, 24, and a tough, muscular carpenter named Gerd Uner, 22. Taking unpaid leaves from their jobs, the three each chipped in $1,000 for food and medical supplies, down-lined clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Human Flies | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

...sucket fork, the work of Jesse Kip. It is a marvelously practical instrument, consisting of a fork at one end for spearing sweetmeats and a spoon at the other for taking up the heavy syrup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Knickerbocker Silversmiths | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...funeral spoon made by Cornelius Vander Burch in 1678, typical of the flatware that was doled out to the bereaved family's friends, a practice that must have assured well-attended funerals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Knickerbocker Silversmiths | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

Squares of cardboard are mounted on a battery-powered turntable inside a protective pot-shaped housing, the switch is turned on, and the cardboard begins to spin. With a special plastic spoon, colored plastic paints are dribbled on the spinning "canvas," and the results can range from wild abstractions to concentric geometric patterns. Kusa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: Plastic Sugarplums | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

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