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...product of his upbringing. Like other members of the imperial family, he has lived a cocoonlike existence, with little knowledge of people and events in the outside world. He has too many servants but he lives simply. His great handicap is that all his life things have been spoon-fed to him, including education. He is an excellent horseman, a good swimmer, and very good at table tennis. He smokes moderately and drinks little. I think he has a good capacity for alcohol, but as he is the crown prince, it is perhaps just as well that he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Girl from Outside | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Mess Kit. In Visalia, Calif., police looked for a man who walked into Tootle's 216 Club, ate and paid for a steak dinner, then ran out the door with his knife, fork and spoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Placed on a plate with a spoon, it looks such a tempting morsel that they won't be able to wait to eat it. However they quickly wait to eat it. However they quickly discover, to their surprise, that it is nothing but an excellent imitation. It's a good joke to play on your unsuspecting guests serving it for desert instead of the real ice cream. Well made and can be used over and over again...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: From a Kazoo Kulture To Wheaties Democracy | 12/4/1958 | See Source »

...Beloved Infidel. Among the episodes: Fitzgerald aboard a plane raging at the stewardess and his fellow passengers ("Do you know me? . . . I'm F. Scott Fitzgerald. You've read my books. You've read The Great Gatsby, haven't you? Remember?"); Fitzgerald insisting on being spoon-fed by Esquire Editor Arnold Gingrich and spewing up coffee and trying to bite Gingrich's hand during the feeding; Fitzgerald goading a friend into punching him, and upon being lightly tapped mumbling bitterly to himself, "That big, hulking brute-and me dying of tuberculosis"; Fitzgerald entangled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Honi Soit Qui Malibu | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...year. But to Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, it was merely a matter of "morality." In the next five years $140 million would be needed for native schooling. The natives should pay for it. "What," cried Verwoerd, "would satisfy the highest demands of morality? Would it be to spoon-feed the natives constantly, allowing them to be beggars who go on their knees to the white man? All they have to do is save 3½ pence [4?] by drinking half a pint less of Kaffir beer a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Black Tax | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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