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Bitterly the Review's admirers observe that football at thrifty L.S.U. last year cost the student body a special subsidy of $61,000; that the football team's mascot, a tiger named Mike, requires ten pounds of choice beef daily while his specially constructed, steam-heated home is carried on the books at $6,692.02. But football is part of the life of the Delta. Says the budget committee of the Southern Review: "The committee does not feel that the university can continue to support so heavily an activity which relatively reaches so small a number of people...
...cold storage, from the squat, thick-walled ice houses of villages to the glistening refrigerator plants of big cities, are record stocks of vegetables, fruits, eggs, butter and cheese, frozen chickens, near-record stocks of beef, pork, slabs of lard. Stored in farmers' dirt-walled cellars, or in the basements of city groceries, is a profusion of potatoes, cabbages, onions, apples, turnips, rutabagas, yams...
...view. Nazi pressure, which is reported to have taken the form of a direct note promising retribution and economic ruin for any nation which has not "behaved discreetly" at Rio, has more influence in the Pink House than in any other Latin American capitol. As long as United States beef interests insist that Argentine steers have hoof-and-mouth disease, for one small example, the Republic will be dependent on Europe for its existence...
...week's end Churchill boarded a train, again with elaborate secrecy, relaxed in zippered grey coveralls, ordered an unrationed dinner of sherry and rare beef, an unrationed breakfast of sliced chicken, ham, bacon & eggs. Next day he showed up in snow-covered Ottawa to address a joint session of the Canadian Parliament...
...over to the educates more easily if it has a chocolate coating of entertainment. The zombies and senoritas of the Beachcomber and the South American songs of the Yale Glee Club do more for the cause of the Good Neighbor policy than all the economic reports of Argentinean beef mimeographed in Washington in a decade. Consequently, it is good news that the New England Pan-American Society and the Phillips Brooks House have given up their stuffy sides on Colombian architecture and are sponsoring instead a gala Pan-American Ball this Friday evening to raise Harvard's interest...