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...said he liked any food "that flies through the kitchen." Sea food was still his favorite dish, terrapin in any form his prime favorite, with a gastronomic nook always reserved for kedgeree, a dish of flaked white fish, rice, hardboiled eggs. He is a cheese connoisseur, but likes ice cream to the point of second helpings. He honestly likes hot dogs. One Scotch highball at teatime is his usual ration, but on a night out he ups that limit: often at banquets the flower vases before his place conceal as many as four Old-Fashioneds, which he downs before...
...choose 60 leading contemporary U. S. artists, then to pick one picture by each of the 60. Some of these canvases had been previously shown in public; all (like Speicher's Alicia, see cut) were typical of the artist's best work, thus represented the fresh cream of U. S. painting...
...cream of the intercollegiate crop of track and field stars was to be culled from this meet for the 1940 Olympic Games in Finland, but with total war raging in Europe and the Olympics called off, the colorful outdoor I.C.A.A.A.A. Meet will provide a grand finale to a remarkable track and field season...
...clipped green lawn a pavilion was staked up. In the tent shade a liveried staff arranged little tea sandwiches, plates of cookies, piles of paper napkins; twisted up scoops of ice cream (strawberry, chocolate); dipped tiny mugs of sweet, nonalcoholic punch. In redlined blue capes moved Red Cross nurses; the Red Cross ladies fussed with plates and spoons. Near, but tactfully hidden, waited a khaki colored Army ambulance. Men with 22-year-old wounds must not be overexcited, must not overdo-Trailed by uniformed aides strode Eleanor Roosevelt, summery in a long, pale blue dress, a white hat, to meet...
...many prime equities fell to apparent bargain levels. Examples: Du Pont (selling around 160 and paying $7.50), Eastman Kodak (selling around 140 and paying $6), Bethlehem Steel (selling under 80 and paying $3.75), United Aircraft (selling at 48 and paying $2.75), nearly a 5% rate of return on the cream of U. S. business. Traders with cash balanced the temptation to snap up these bargains against the thought that fresh Allied disasters might well knock the market down to still more attractive bargain levels before defense spending takes hold...