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Last week many a famed Manhattan nightclubber received an astounding form letter. Excerpts: "You are cordially invited to attend the gala opening of the Fifty-Eighth Street Country Club. . . . If you found a soupçon of enjoyment in my former place . . . in this Mecca of Merriment you will behold . . . the titillating tintinnabulating secret excitations of the Congo and flesh-shuddering, goose-creeping horrors of the Grand Guignol!" The letters-there were two editions-were signed: BELLE LIVINGSTONE...
...asked 125,000 municipal employes to contribute 1% of their monthly salaries ($266,000) for physical relief. In a two-day canvass policemen listed 13,222 families in need of immediate aid. Estimates of the city's unemployed ran as high as 800,000. Into eight Salvation Army soup kitchens long lines of men and a few women shuffled for free clam chowder, crackers, coffee. City officials prepared to feed 15,000 mouths per day, shelter 10,000 heads, free throughout the winter...
...ancient Japanese industry, have built in California the only agar plant in the world outside of the Orient. Several years ago Japanese fishermen discovered some agar-bearing sea moss on the Los Angeles Harbor breakwater. Realizing that nostalgic Orientals in the U. S. love bird's-nest soup and knowing that agar-agar is an ingredient, they built a small factory, which Occidentals have taken over, moved, modernized...
...hours. In addition there are electric dishwashers, waffle irons, toasters, hydraulic elevators, steam plate warmers, salad and plate coolers, four gas ovens, automatic egg boilers, and a potato peeler. This saves time and also wastes only 1-10 of the potato, while hand peeling wastes 1-3. There are soup vats large enough to boil a good-sized man, a fool-proof food chopper and a special vegetable cooker...
...John Thompson Dorrance was chosen to be a director of Campbell Soup Co., filling one position left vacant by the recent death of her husband (TIME, Oct. 13). Chairman of the Board will be her brother-in-law, Dr. George Morris Dorrance...