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...deciding that the non-upholstered armchair for the College dorms should be designed to be comfortable with your feet on the table, and College dietitians deliberately planning extra good meals in the fall to make easier the transfer from home cooking and then in the spring again bettering the menus to meet the expected undergraduate protests about board--these are but a few of the additions Mr. Morse has made to Harvard folklore. The quarter of the book which deals with the younger Morse's however, will interest only the persons concerned...
Valiantly but vainly has Interior Secretary Harold LeClair Ickes tried to get in on the U.S. defense program, but last week he found an alternative. His Fish and Wildlife Service produced a five-page masterwork entitled "Seafood Salads for Summer Menus." Argued the Department's expert-in-charge-of-seafood-salads: "As a heat-forgetter, for unexpected company, or as a quickly prepared meal-in-itself in a busy household, try a tangy seafood salad during the coming summer days." Sang the expert, crediting "Unknown...
Vichy announced that meat would shortly be scarcer than ever (present ration-eleven three-ounce meat meals per month) and enforced fixed menus and prices on all restaurants to end "the scandalous contrast between long lines of persons on the sidewalk waiting for victuals, which frequently turn out to be hypothetical, and the sight of those favored by fortune sitting at well-served tables in restaurants de luxe...
...last week Slangbanger Damon Runyon began his column: "Some folks are saying that the United States is already in the war, but we . . . have not seen a single patriot chasing a little bowlegged dachshund down the street with murderous intent,* and hamburger and Wiener Schnitzel are still on the menus. . . . We refuse to believe we are actually...
...first imported to build the Canal, monopolize jobs on that waterway. He has seen the import business, utilities and banking taken over by Anglo-Saxon Americans, by the British and by Germans. He has heard English spoken on the streets as freely as Spanish; he has read street signs, menus and business correspondence in English. Finally, he has found that the wage scale for his own countrymen is lower than the scale for aliens. Having absorbed nationalistic ideas in Italy, where his brother, onetime President, sent him as Minister, he is determined to enforce them in Panama...