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Third-quarter earnings of Consolidated Foods Corp. soared 13% to 50? per share v. 44? last year. Spurred by what Chairman Neil McElroy called "the rather exceptional progress" being made by Procter & Gamble's Duncan Hines cake-mix sales, P. & G.'s estimated third-quarter sales and earnings were going along at about last year's 5% growth rate...
...recipe: 1 packet active dry yeast (or 1 cake compressed yeast...
...That veteran of many a campaign tea party, Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, downed coffee and cake on a four-day swing through The Bronx, Brooklyn and Long Island, and pulled out one organ stop farther than anyone else has. Referring to the wartime deaths of her eldest son Joe and her son-in-law, Rose Kennedy told the housewives: "Jack knows the sorrow, the grief, the tears and the heartbreaking grief and loneliness that come to a family when a mother has lost her eldest son and a young bride has lost her bridegroom. So I know that Jack will...
Becket does not succumb to the temptation to build drab hatbox or birthday-cake buildings; he tries to give each client a distinctive building. Yet he does not kowtow to his client's every wish: when a New York company asked him to design a building similar to Capitol Records', he turned it down on the ground that the building would not fit its needs...
...rounded up and lodged in the Silver Hall, the mirror-lined banquet room of the Mashinka's most fashionable bordello. Confinement quickly erases the difference between whore and housewife, who come to share each other's concerns: a prim matron tries a striptease, the prostitutes study cake recipes. Eventually quarantine proves ineffective. The infection rages through Drohitz and the surrounding countryside and Ember, promoted from subaltern to Commissioner of Deceased Persons, runs out both coffins and burial parties. At novel's end the army marches off to another regrouping point, still expecting 'ever new and more...