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...Authors. . . . I would rather make my own selection. Such compilations may be serviceable to those that have access to few books, but to employ them in other cases is too much like Sancho's dinner of state: one gets what another's taste has provided, and but precious little of that. . . . Played a game of whist in Jenks's room this afternoon. . . . Did wrong: won't do it again in term-time. Not that I think card playing sinful, but it is against college laws...
Life in The Netherlands a year after V-E day is not easy. People are shabbily dressed, but plans to revive and expand the textile industry are moving forward. People have almost enough to eat (1,900 calories a day) but many of the precious Dutch delicacies are missing; almost all the cheese is being exported to get foreign exchange. Food is still too scarce to make up for the starvation years. In the last agonizing months under the Nazis, Dutchmen ate only 400 calories a day; they are still unwontedly thin and pale...
After a few shots of precious Kentucky bourbon (Kentuckians rhyme it with turban), strangers would almost believe what Louisvillians tell them-that you can smell the blue grass (which is 30 miles away at Shelbyville...
...reconstruction of the children [of Europe and Asia] is more precious than factories and bridges. For they will determine the good or evil future of Europe. ... If every source of supply [is] scraped to the bottom of the barrel, we can pull the world through this most dangerous crisis...
...hilarious hymn to The Good Old Days ("The women wore a little more and beer was alcoholic"), he quickly took a swipe at Socialism: We love our country but we hate The swollen octopus, the State That fills our stomachs well enough But robs the soul of precious stuff...