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Strange Sweet. This spring, Sybille went to work for the Americans, and things were a little better. Most meals consisted of soup and potatoes, with a thin slice of sausage and cheese three times a week in the evening, and a small chunk of meat on Sundays. By standing in line for hours, Frau Weidner could get bread and now & then some cereal. Sybille even brought home some G.I. candy for her small brother. Dieter looked at it uncomprehendingly. "What is that?" he asked...
Galicia seemed much more remote a year ago, when U.S. policymakers agreed "tentatively" to U.S.S.R. proposals for boundary shifts in eastern Europe. The Russo-Polish border moved west. In return the Poles got not only a large slice of German land but a Russian promise to take into Russia thousands of Ukrainians who had lived for generations among the Poles...
...were run while he was stockboy, salesman and export man, the new president set out to please everybody he could. Result: stockholders now purr happily over dividends increased 150% over 1932's, management turns sedate somersaults at sales figures, and junior board members chomp joyfully on a special slice of the profits (three weeks' pay in 1945). The loudest cheers naturally come from employes: their work-week is stable, well paid, shorter. Union organizers have long since decided that the McCormick lily neither wants nor needs their gilding...
...White introduced the lonely first-comer, Bolivia's Dr. Franklin Antezana Paz, to the lonely second-comer, Arturo Maschke Tornero of Chile. The two Latins warmly embraced. Latin American delegations were soon buzzing that they, as much as the war-scarred nations of Europe, expect a good slice of Bank funds for industrial development...
...their "Gaelic and Spanish . . . capacity for swift, passionate love" came the daughter whom they christened Santa Fe. Sante Fe Cameron is the slice of pineapple in this fruity, old-fashioned cocktail mixed by Anya Seton (daughter of Wild-Life Popularizer Ernest Thompson Seton), whose last novel, Dragonwyck, was one of 1944's bestsellers...