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Along about 1:30, the waiter slipped Betty the tab. It came to roughly $2,500. Betty wrote a check, and the party boisterously headed for fresh triumphs at the noisier Copacabana. Betty was having a wonderful time, even though the bottom of her dress was hanging in strips where people had trodden on it. But it was obviously getting too tiring for ladies like her mother. Her mother, Mrs. Robert J. Faulkner, is 95 and does not drink. Leaning on her cane and her daughter, mother was taken home...
...Future. Even with Bocchiccio picking up the tab, Walcott is one of the skimpiest eaters big-time heavyweight boxing has ever known. After a five-mile run he breakfasts on prunes, two eggs, a lamb chop, tea and toast. Then comes a mile walk, a nap until noon (he eats no lunch) and seven rounds' workout in the afternoon. For supper he does not wolf a 3-lb. steak (as Billy Conn used to), but settles for a smaller one. He looks lighter than his 196 Ibs. Most remarkable about him is the fact that he seems...
When he gets the Times, Field plans to make the Sun a tab too and put out a joint Sunday edition called the Sun-Times. Field will find the Times (circ. 474,000) a paper that sees things his own, New Dealing way, under the guidance of an able, deceptively benign-looking publisher named Richard James Finnegan. The Times has been profitable, which is more than the Sun can say. The Sun will lose its sour-faced executive editor, E. Z. ("Dimmy") Dimitman, whom Field imported from the Philadelphia Inquirer. Dimmy never did have much use for his boss...
...payment of the bonus, Dewey had an equally Spartan prescription. He wanted it paid off in ten years by means of an additional 1? tax on cigarets, a 20% increase in present income taxes. Democrats, who wanted business to pay the tab, wailed that veterans would be paying for their own bonus. Tom Dewey didn't say they wouldn't. But if the people wanted to vote a bonus, Dewey meant to see that they knew what it would cost...
...Washington, economists of the International Emergency Food Council (whose job is keeping tab on food production, recommending fair division of the scarcities) made a prognosis. Said Council Secretary General Dennis A. FitzGerald: ". . . The world is eating a little better this winter than last [but] the improvement is small. . . . In the Lower Danube Basin and the adjacent parts of the U.S.S.R. food conditions range from no better to much worse. In India and the Far East . . . the patient is by no means out of danger...