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...House of Commons' kitchen committee faced facts. Many a Laborite M.P.-and some Tories, too-must live on a parliamentary salary of $2,400 a year, cannot afford to eat on the premises. Last week the committee set up a poor man's canteen. It featured a hot meal (soup, lamb or beef with potatoes, cabbage, apple pie) for 30?; tipping was banned. At that rate no member of the "world's best club" would have to bring his own lunch...
...series of crisp biographical sketches, Schlesinger resuscitates the men around Jackson, some of them members of his official family, some of them members of the unofficial "Kitchen Cabinet" which sometimes played a more effective role in governing the country than the cabinet officers. Many of these men have been forgotten. There was Thomas Hart Benton ("He had a giant conviction that he and the people were one. 'Nobody opposes Benton,' he would roar, pronouncing it 'Bane-ton,' 'but a few blackjack prairie lawyers; these are the only opponents of Benton. Benton and the people...
...worldly ways, "Pater's" school was a high success. Rich & poor alike partook of his simple religious faith and his exuberant spirit. The boys made their own beds, waited on tables, worked in the kitchen, did practically all the physical work of the school. This "Kent system" became famed in the secondary-school world and was aped, in varying degrees, by many another school. Kent's oarsmen, coached by Pater himself (an ex-coxswain at Columbia), rowed at many a famed Henley regatta in England...
...Assistant Secretaries, the new executives, like their predecessors, will have little to do with policy matters, will be primarily concerned with keeping records. Neither has a success formula for girls who want to make the long climb from hot kitchen to air-conditioned office-except ambition. Said Mrs. Porter: "It has been wonderful, though, to see the effect our appointment has had on the other women of the company. It has given them all renewed hope. . . . It's a milestone for women in the conservative man's world...
...glass-enclosed elevated dome that protrudes 18 inches above the car roof. Under the unbreakable, heat-resisting Thermo-pane glass, 24 passengers will have an unobstructed view of the Rockies, can sun bathe in soft lounge seats. For Dome dining under the stars dumbwaiters will lift meals from the kitchen below. After dinner, tables on the lower floor of the diners can be dropped into slots, the space cleared for dancing...