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...Beefsteak. Three weeks ago the deadlock on the Italian treaty seemed about to be broken by settling one point-the question of powers to be conferred on the U.N.-appointed governor of Trieste (TIME, Nov. 25). But that point proved a knotty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Two Thanksgivings | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

France's towering (6 ft. 7 in.) Yvon Petra stomped onto Wimbledon's famed center court wearing a white jockey cap and a belligerent look. His wife had just found him a steak. Said she: "With a beefsteak inside him, he can always win." She was right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ladies' Day at Wimbledon | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

Most U.S. retail merchants would rather unwrap a beefsteak in a lion's cage than display nylons openly, let alone advertise them. The few who have tried have repented almost immediately-once in Chicago a horde of irritable females chased a proprietor out a fire escape when his supply of nylons was gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Defense in Depth | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...back home. Every morning she got up at a little before 7 to get the Vice President's breakfast-always fruit, milk and toast. She had given up trying to find a maid. Almost every evening she cooked supper, sometimes sighing a little over the dearth of beefsteak, her husband's favorite dish. She does not smoke; her husband does not approve of women with cigarets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Moving Day | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...last week with the U.S. 17th Airborne Division. Two nights later he turned up in Paris, bone-weary, unshaven, still clad in a dirty paratroop uniform. At the apartment of TIME'S chief military correspondent, Charles Christian Wertenbaker, Mr. Capa consented to eat some ham and eggs and beefsteak and bread and butter and cheese and cake, and to drink some coffee and burgundy and champagne and cognac. Between swallows he explained what it was like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THIS INVASION WAS D4FFERENT | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

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