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Room 301 in St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn, has light-cream walls and a southeast-corner view, the patient noted. To the Clinic staff, even to his brisk, dark-haired Nurse Mary Conway, the patient was just another one of the 100,000 who come to Mayo's each year. But to Franklin Roosevelt, anxiously reading the wired reports, the man in 301 was much more important...
...Peterson, 59, had a record year. He hired a man (at $7 a day); paid $1,000 to have his combining done; paid $1,000 in old seed loans, $800 in back taxes, $400 in income taxes; bought a seed drill, a wind charger, a secondhand Ford, an electric cream separator, a washing machine, an electric iron and a radio; surfaced the road leading up to the highway. He still had money left to buy war bonds and plunk in the bank...
...cocktail (Texas grapefruit, Brazilian pineapple, Guatemalan bananas, Mexican papaya) ; vegetable plate (Guatemala chayote, Pennsylvania mushrooms, California asparagus, Texas broccoli, Louisiana sweet potatoes, Florida tomatoes); salad (artichoke stuffed with avocado, South American water chestnuts, water-lily roots, papaya); mousse Tropicana (a scooped-out Temple orange, frozen solid, filled with ice cream, chopped figs, dates, California walnuts and Brazilian nuts); pia-pie Brazil (sponge cake and fresh pineapple...
...picture, Martha Raye, the feminists' Joe E. Brown, practically ingests the comic sergeant (Phil Silvers) who chauffeurs their jeep. Mitzi Mayfair snuggles up to a uniformed ex-vaudeville partner (Dick Haymes, who is Fox's threat to Frank Sinatra, and sings like melting vanilla ice cream). Kay Francis plays handles with an English Army doctor who utters the stunning gallantry : "If I'd held this hand ten years ago I might have a full house now." Miss Francis just laughs. In Britain and Africa, the cinemactresses clearly enjoyed themselves, worked hard, and brought some pleasure to places...
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...