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White bread-the symbol of American plenty-would have to be displaced by a grey-or cream-colored bread*; the President decreed that wheat flour be made from 80% instead of the normal 70% of the whole grain. Production of whiskey and of other grain alcohol beverages would have to be cut back to wartime levels. Beer brewing would have to be cut by 30% (back to the 1940 rate). The wartime set-aside of pork for Government purchase was reinstated. The President warned the U.S. that it might even have to go back to meat rationing...
...What an incredible, easygoing place the Senate is!" he wrote. "As I stood in the lobby a boy in knickerbockers walked by with a carton of ice cream and a cardboard spoon...
...students dress with meticulous conformity, coed/sin blue jeans and bobby sox, boys in loud shirts and windbreakers well smeared with mud and lipstick. They dismiss nonconformists as "study-bugs" or "groubies" ("much worse than a meatball"). Beloit's boys & girls mix business and pleasure: between Cokes and ice cream at the Union last week they boned furiously for midyears...
Madeleine Carroll, peaches-&-cream cinemeritus who set an example that few movie stars followed and fewer equaled-she quit Hollywood fame & fortune for three solid years of war work-was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. France paid tribute to her Red Crossing among soldiers during the liberation, her broadcasts boosting Franco-American understanding...
...bullet has shattered a vertebra. No operation is possible. His skill, which has saved so many lives that mean little to him, can do nothing for Joan, who means much to him. Joan dies the day the Germans invade Poland, and the world, like a blob of soggy ice cream oozing off a spoon, slides into World...