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...Before breakfast, ½ gal. of buttermilk. Typical breakfast: 1 doz. fried eggs, a huge ½-in.-thick slice of ham, 1 doz. hard rolls, 1 qt. black coffee. Dinner: 1 doz. raw oysters, chicken gumbo, terrapin stew, two canvasback ducks, mashed potatoes, lima beans, macaroni, asparagus, cole slaw, stewed corn, 1 hot mince pie, 1 qt. coffee; 1 bottle sauterne, 1 qt. champagne, several cognacs. He particularly liked a 7-lb. beefsteak, 1½-in. thick, so rare it was hardly warm.. * A violation of a major canon of the American Bar Association, which, however, never peeped until some...
...Dramatic Club, in its present production, has hit a new peak in its career. The show was outstanding for its smooth and forceful direction by L. J. Profit, S. R. Sheppard, and J. B. McMeehan, but the Club's choice of a play gave them superb raw material with which to work. The young English poets, Auden and Isherwood, have tried to portray "the universal tragedy of man in a man-made world." By a simple and polyphonic prose, verse of varied complexity, a tragic chorus, lyric refrain and dream device, they have welded a series of bizarre climaxes into...
...largest crowd Jamaica had ever seen and it was a larger handle than even Senator Dunnigan had hoped for. Thus, with a bang, pari-mutuel betting invaded New York race tracks, for years the last stronghold of the bookmaker. Jubilant over an $800,000 handle on a raw-cold Monday, New York Statesmen had visions of a $100,000,000 turnover before the racing season ends, Nov. 2. Envious of the State's share of the gravy (5% of the turnover), New York City officials promptly announced that its 2% sales tax would apply to all horses changing hands...
...roughly $17,000,000 a month to Germany alone, has jeopardized another $35,000,000 a month in exports to the Allies, nearly equivalent losses of imports from Europe. To the U. S., Latin America is a great potential market for industrial products, a great potential source of needed raw materials (such as rubber, tin) whose usual sources (British Malaya, Dutch...
...victories will probably be few and far between despite the best pitching of Captain Tom Healey, Lou Clay, and Charley Brackett. Added to its woes is the fact that the club hasn't even drawn files as far as attendance is concerned in the opening games. The weather was raw and cold for both the Tufts and the Boston University encounters, but the crowds were pitifully small...