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...plays, he said, dealt only in universals-"I am not interested in such ephemeral subjects as the adulteries of dentists"-and three of them, entitled Infancy, Childhood and Someone from Assisi, would open off Broadway next month. As for the remaining eleven, said Wilder, "some are on the stove, some are in the oven, and some are in the wastebasket." When all 14 were finally fully baked, then what? "After I complete these plays," declared the three-time Pulitzer prizewinner, "I'm retiring from life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 17, 1961 | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...coffee, you are already in trouble." Most vendors, however, believe that solving the costly problems of hot food selling is only a matter of time. Wolff's Interstate is currently testing a quick-cook process designed to heat a complete frozen meal in 15 seconds. If the radar stove works, food waste in automated cafeterias should be much reduced. The optimists among vending operators look forward to a time when they will be taking in as much as $15 million a day on meals alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Automatic Millionaires | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

...Caretaker (by Harold Pinter) ups curtain on a West London room that looks like the Pharaoh's tomb of a junkman. There are bales of yellowed newspapers, moldy tennis rackets, scattered bureau drawers, a sink bowl, and a disconnected gas stove graced with a gilt plaster Buddha. There is a lawn mower and a blowtorch. On a rope strung from the leaky roof hangs a paint bucket into which drops of water plunk like the tick-tock of doom. Into this dusty, chilly tomb, English Playwright Pinter deposits three mummies of modern man, who proceed to strip off each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Unwrapping Mummies | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

...world that looks as if it were designed by an architect." A major attraction of the house is the huge kitchen, which might have been lifted out of the pages of Gone With the Wind; it has no chrome or eye-level ovens, but an old gas stove large enough to have turned out food for a whole regiment of McClellan's troops. Actually, the kitchen does not get as much use as it might; because the press of his duties so often makes him miss dinner at home. Bobby Kennedy once a week herds Ethel and the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: Kennedy Living | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

...While its competitors pursue diversification, producing an ever wider range of appliances, Maytag moves in the opposite direction. Since 1957, Maytag has dropped its moneymaking stove and freezer lines to concentrate entirely on the products it knows best: washers and dryers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Washday Wonder | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

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