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...side, promptly suffered a nervous collapse. Piero, however, submitted quietly enough. At the big grey prison where he was locked in a cell just vacated by a Sicilian accused of murder, he refused to send out for special meals, ate instead the plain prison fare of boiled beef and bread. "This is as good a time as any to follow the diet my doctor recommended," he said. And from a pretty quarter, he got a pretrial assist. Cinemactress Alida Valli, a onetime sojourner in Hollywood (The Third Man), announced what she considered to be an alibi for Piero. Two days...
...many top Washington officials are as meticulous as General Services Administrator Edmund F. Mansure. He carefully separates the meat from the potatoes before he eats a plate of beef hash. In similar fashion he has separated the nation's $1 billion annual housekeeping bill into such components as paper clips, office desks and procurement forms, thereby saved the Government $150 million last year. But not all of Mansure's orders have made dollar-saving sense...
This little pig went to market; This little pig stayed at home; This little pig had roast beef; This little pig had none; This little pig went wee-wee-wee All the way home...
...rhyme may be taken as a paradigm of individuation and unsocialized behavior among children of an earlier era. Today, however, all little pigs go to market; none stay home; all have roast beef...
Died. Jay Catherwood Hormel, 61, board chairman of George A. Hormel & Co.; of a heart ailment; in Austin, Minn. As a World War I lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps, Hormel won the plaudits of the brass by showing meat packers how to bone beef before it was shipped overseas (saving 40% in cargo space), came home to make a fortune for his father's meat-packing company and fame of a different sort in World War II by inventing Spam, a canned pork product, which became the ubiquitous item on Allied military menus the world over. In 1931 Iconoclast...