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...hour of voting drew close. Mead's backers put on the last ounce of pressure. There was a sudden scurry among the potent men behind the platform; Jim Farley rushed up to the stage, button holed Governor Lehman, took him back to the hotel kitchen. There, away from the turmoil, they conferred for ten minutes. Farley bustled into more conferences, with his friend Frank Kelly, with his enemy Ed Flynn. For the first time, Big Jim looked worried...
Died. Alice Duer Miller, 68, popular U.S. novelist, whose long poem, The White Cliffs, became her biggest success; in Manhattan. Her books became popular musicomedies, motion pictures (Come Out of the Kitchen; Roberta). The White Cliffs was published at the beginning of the London blitz. Read over the air by Lynn Fontanne, it sold over 200,000 copies in the U.S., 100,000 in England. Its loose-rhythmed, nearly conversational verse was intended to say "all the truth I could about England." She concluded: ". . . In a world where England is finished and dead, I do not wish to live...
...coveted prize for an evening of bridge was a prune or a piece of hard candy. . . . Many acrimonious debates took place. . . . The kitchen staff . . . threatened to resign because of criticism by some prisoners who had found fish and slightly moldy bread in the garbage can. The cooks said the fish was tainted and the bread too moldy. Their accusers said the fish had been retrieved to yield 19 excellent filets and the bread turned into a tasty dish of bread crumbs...
...Department urged the housewives of the country, already canning 50% more than usual (TIME, July 27), to can even more. In the cheese weeks (Aug. 17-29) the Department hopes to liquidate the stock of 165 million pounds of extra American cheddar. Probable best bets in the U.S. kitchen sweepstakes for late August: corn, lima beans, plums and prunes...
...civilians in all but heavy industry will get little or no milk, no eggs (unless they can feed their chickens exclusively on disappearing kitchen scraps), few tinned foods from the U.S., no vegetables except potatoes, cabbage and brussels sprouts. Eating in Britain will be even less fun, even more functional. The rations will be enough to keep people nourished, and no more...