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About 80 Congressmen- and some 180 free riders-sat down with tieless, sport-shirted Bill Jack, ate seafood cocktail with Russian dressing, tiny brown-bread-&-cheese sandwiches, terrapin soup, breast of capon and Virginia ham, potatoes au gratin, lettuce and grapefruit salad, ice cream, demitasse. Well-fed-a few grumbled because there was no liquor-they listened to Lobbyist Jack's proposition...
...annual $100-a-plate Jackson Day dinner (terrapin soup, breast of capon, burgundy), speakers and audience also took it for granted that Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only Democrat who can win in 1944. Second place on the ticket was the only puzzle. Friends of Paul McNutt moved energetically among the guests. The stock of House Speaker Sam Rayburn (who spoke in the President's regular spot at Jack son Day dinners) went up perceptibly. But by the time Vice President Henry Wallace rose to affirm that the "ageless" New Deal was far from dead, big & little Democrats were...
Hamburger and Capon. Founder of the Brown Derby was the late Herbert K. Somborn, movie producer, second of Gloria Swanson's four husbands. A coffee-bibber, Somborn wanted 20 cups a day. And he often sighed for his mother's home cooking. A restaurant seemed the only answer. He outlined the idea to his friend, legendary Wit Wilson Mizner. Cracked Mizner: "A restaurant like that would succeed-even if you called it the Brown Derby...
...coffee, tea, milk, near beer. This week's daily menus, 20 years later, include nine hot entrees chosen from a list of 2,700 dishes, all à la carte. Most expensive: New York cut steak, $3.25. Least expensive: hamburger, 35?. Most exotic (at $2.50): Le Coq Avin (boneless capon sautéed in butter, cognac; cooked in burgundy; served with chicken livers, truffles, mushrooms...
...tour was not of their choosing. They went at the Treasury Department's request, to help the sale of war bonds. They went cheerfully, did their duty like good soldiers. They had fun, too. The entertainment was lavish. The tables creaked with steak and chicken and lobster and capon. They had big leisurely breakfasts in their hotel rooms. Smart debs and sleek models took them to nightclubs. They rode in open cars, so the people could see them better...