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Thus, at last, were Madrid's gourmets driven underground by Madrid's bird lovers. For generations Madrileños have been eating fried sparrows. There was a time when open-air stands on every street corner in the city sold the tender delicacies like hot franks at Coney Island. Then the bird lovers of Madrid's S.P.C.A. stepped in, flooding the city with leaflets quoting St. Francis of Assisi, who liked his birds on the wing and not the skillet. The fried birds were driven off the street corners and into the taverns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Orchard Chops | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...gulped down rice wine by the tin-cupful. Among these New Year's Eve celebrants was Claude Batchelor. He was not as happy as he acted. Red rule in the North Camp had begun to wear on the nerves of Peace-Fighter Batchelor. He had been receiving tender letters, supposedly from his Japanese wife (but the majority actually composed by Associated Press staffers in Tokyo), urging him to seek repatriation. Most important of all. Batchelor had started to worry about his own hide: the other Americans suspected him of wavering, and had taken away most of his powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Flipflop at Panmunjom | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

Tradition, but not law, requires the Premier to resign when a new President takes office. Last week it was agreed that Laniel would tender his resignation this week; that Auriol, with Coty's concurrence, would refuse the resignation and ask the Premier to continue in office; that Laniel would then go before the National Assembly and request a vote of confidence. Many embittered Deputies who would like to bring down the Laniel government might be inclined to wait, knowing that their chance will come in due time and that the next Cabinet crisis, when it happens, will probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Dear Compatriots | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

Mary Maloney was a tender, loving wife, but when her policeman husband tried to leave her, she crushed his skull with the nearest thing at hand: a leg of lamb fresh from the freezer. Without quite knowing it, Mary had committed a perfect crime. Before the commiserating police have finished their investigation at the Widow Maloney's house, the murder weapon has been cooked and eaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: British O. Henry | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...Studio One, sponsor Westinghouse has brilliantly faced up to some difficult situations. One script was turned down at the last minute when a sure-eyed adman found that its plot revolved about a leaky refrigerator. And, to protect the tender sensibilities of Westinghouse's lamp department, Studio One obligingly switched the title of Rudyard Kipling's The Light That Failed to The Gathering Night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Vanishing Word | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

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