Nightlife Snippets From Midtown Gossip Columns
A collage of socialites and public figures at New York venues stops front page. Fannie Hurst, Tony Eden, George Raft, Ann Sheridan, and Lois Thrasher appear amid cocktails, dinners, and playful anecdotes. Memos debate Rita Hayworth tied to the atomic bomb naming.
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Fannie Hurst
Tony Eden
LaGuardia
Frank Thinatra
Howie’s
George Raft
Sardi’s
Andy Russell
Ritz
Raff) Bros
Olin’s
Ann Sheridan
Feller
Riviera Ringside
B. Baruch
The
United Statesman
Central Park Bench
Meeshaan Auer
Tovarich
John Mason Brown
Wendell Willkie
Blue Angel
Mr. Molotov
Bill McKamy
J. Walter Thompson Agency
Rita Hayworth
Gilda
How to Be a Civilian G I Wins by Food Challenge
Morton Thompsons new book and a humorous scene feature a G I in his first Auto Mat. He fills a table with a foot high stack of food while a civilian questions him. The GI replies I quit when Im winning as the table overflows with trays and nickels.
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Krots Bulc
Hisself
Sherm Billingsberg
Tony Butrico
Tony
H. F. Kramer
Morton Thompson
G.I
Truman Veto Sparks Debate and Global Plans
President Truman defends his veto of the price control bill while aides push for war surplus aid to schools. Talks with Allies on postwar Germany aim to unite Western zones under U.S. British and French influence. Secretary Anderson backs the farm research bill. Capital chaff notes Russia broadcasts and Argentina gold release. Truman scraps Alaska vacation.
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Germany
U. S
Wurttemberg
Baden
Anderson
House Agriculture Committee
Truman
White House
North Carolina
State Department
Russia
John Snyder
Wheat Free Meals For Hard Times From War Era Menu
Western Newspaper Union reports tips for using potatoes and non wheat cereals to substitute bread and flour. recipes include Potato Cups With Tuna Fish Corn Sticks Savory Baked Beans and Hamburger and Peach Melba. Also analysis on Spain and Soviet Union politics in the UN Security Council.
Lynn Chambers Menus Reported Dishes and Peach Melba Beverages
Potato Cups with Tuna Fish Tossed Vegetable Salad Green Beans Celery Onions Radishes Spinach Leaves Corn Sticks Apple Butter Peach Melba Beverage Recipes given.
Save flour by adding fruits meats and vegetables to baked dishes
Lynn suggests stretching flour supplies by adding chopped apples bananas blueberries diced ham and cheese sausage corn and nuts to pancakes waffles and breads. Use dried fruits oats prunes raisins figs in muffins breads and biscuits. Replace some bread with leftover cereals with meat and fruit additions for flavor and texture.
General Quiz Questions From ASK ME ANOTHER
Nine questions cover U S independence capitals Portland cement origin whether spaghetti originated in Italy which city walls fell to sound waves which former President served as chief justice who sang about Old Dog Tray where ambergris comes from what Greeks worshipped as Boreas the steersman name in a racing shell and why submarines spend more time on the surface than submerged including wartime factors
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United States
Italy
Tray
Answers to a Portland stone question set
Nine. From Portland stone from England resembling Portland cement. No Marco Polo brought spaghetti to Italy from China. Jericho. William Howard Taft. Stephen Foster. It is yielded by sick whales. The north wind. Coxswain. To conserve and recharge their batteries which must be used when submerged.
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England
Marco Polo
Italy
China
Jericho
William Howard Taft
Stephen Foster
Coxswain
Postmaster Seeks Form For Digestion Complaint
A woman visits the local postmaster claiming a delayed medicine package. In a tongue in cheek exchange about a weak back the postmaster presses for the form noting the complaint is digestion related. The humor hinges on a pun and social service misunderstanding.
Power of national emblems on distant forts and banners
Emerson notes the stirring effect of national symbols such as stars lilies leopards crescents lions eagles and bunting blowing in the wind at remote forts. The old insignia can thrill even the most outwardly blunt or conventional observers.
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Emerson
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