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Comedians often specialize. Some toy with national politics, others with the race problem. Rusty Warren's field is sexual intercourse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: Barnyard Girl | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...uniform blend of tea and to sell directly to retailers instead of to middlemen. Arthur's son Gerald, who began a 40-year reign as chairman of the company in 1912, made Brooke Bond's red delivery vans so much of a national institution that British toy stores sell miniature copies of them. Gerald also extended Brooke Bond's sources of supply far beyond Mincing Lane by building a 30,000-acre plantation empire in India, Ceylon and Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Tea & Twist | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

...bracing news that it now has a Christmas record all to itself. Called An Eighteenth-Century Christmas, it's put out by Vanguard (Bach Guild BG-569) and includes Corelli's Christmas Concerto, Torelli's Pastoral Concerto for the Nativity, several pieces by J.S. Bach, and the Haydn Toy Symphony (by Leopold Mozart). I Soloisti di Zagreb are the instrumentalists (charmin' fellahs) and they are led by Antonio Janigro...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Old 'Crimson's' Guide to Christmas Cheer: 'II | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...they leave it more valuable than when they started grazing on it. One ton of petroleum thus consumed produces about one ton of dry material that is half protein When fresh the stuff is white and tasteless, but as it ages it turns brown, smells like a new plastic toy and develops a delicately chemical flavor. Some samples according to French experimenters, taste like slightly rancid cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microbiology: The Oil Eaters | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...Merry Christmas!" say the neon statues on the Boston Common, the vigilant policemen in every toy department, the subliminal TV advertisments for Big Bruiser. Merry Christmas, every...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Big Bruiser, King Zor, Santa Claus Usher in Christmas | 12/13/1962 | See Source »

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