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The work lists the offenses that insects are guilty of (they eat man's crops and belongings; they carry diseases; they buzz and they bite). But to catalogue their virtues, Hyslop uses more than twice as much space. For man's benefit and pleasure, he points out, insects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Spokesman for the Enemy | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

By way of comparative prices, a meal of shrimps, wine, tomato and potato salad, more wine, steak and, of course, French fried potatoes and more wine, and cheese for dessert costs a dollar at any of the restaurants off the large boulevards. Movies range from a dime to a dollar...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Notes On Tourists, Students, Francs, and Politics | 9/28/1948 | See Source »

Menace to Hoomanity. The shmoo is a small animal which looks like an animated ham. From its round rump a plumpish neck narrows toward a tiny head; from above a sparse mustache, a pair of trusting eyes peer myopically but ingratiatingly at the world. In the words of the greatest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Harvest Shmoon | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Social Security. Under the weeping willow trees outside, Hoover sat down with state functionaries to an Iowa lunch of fried chicken, corn on the cob and a huge birthday cake, while spectators gawked from beyond the low fence. He visited the old Quaker cemetery, where some dozen Hoovers are buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IOWA: Not a Dream | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

On a tidy farm near Chickamauga, Ga., the Negro Masonic lodge held its meeting in the open air. After a picnic supper, with heaps of fried chicken and hot biscuits, everybody filed into a little church in a grove. The ladies put on a fine program of songs and recitations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brother Crawford | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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