Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bringing Home the Bacon. But the great events of this volume-the fall of France, Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain-do not alone present a complete portrait of Churchill himself. To Churchill the diplomat, the high-spirited artist of war, the politician who understood himself and thus understood the British people, must be added Churchill the tireless observer of small things, the accountant who knows that pennies make the pound...
...Finest Hour are the unromantic details-the huffy commands ("The Prime Minister has noticed that the habit of private secretaries . . . addressing each other by their Christian names ... is increasing, and ought to be stopped"), the interminable questions fired at his subordinates: "What arrangements are you making for curing surplus bacon?"; "How many square feet of glass have been destroyed up to date?"; "Surely you can run to a new Admiralty flag. It grieves me to see the present dingy object every morning." And, as a final touch to the whole figure, there is the Churchill whose mind remembers Virgil when...
More serious Frenchmen also had their show last week. They flocked to view and sample the fat flitches of bacon, succulent sausages and juicy sides of pork on display at Paris' traditional Ham Fair, reopened for the first time since the war. One epicure, tasting an exhibit (below), demonstrated that there were at least some people left in the world who appreciated the importance of the finer things in life-the proper blending of spices and garlic in a sausage, for example...
Playing for the Crimson will be Bud Ager, Captain Ted Bullard, Charlie Ames, Jack Frey, Hilliard Hughes, and Howie Swartzman in singles; and Jay Robb, Bob Bramhall, and Ed Bacon in doubles...
...College, who gathered the materials for it while mapping the great trails across continental U.S. Hulbert imagined a "typical" wagon train-16 wagons, with four mules to each wagon and three spares, 125 Ibs. of flour for each man, as well as 50 Ibs. of ham, 50 Ibs. of bacon, 30 Ibs. of sugar, 6 Ibs. of coffee. He tells what the emigrants talked about, what songs they sang, their feasts and prayer meetings, the condition of the road and the weather, the imagined hazards (Indians and Mormons) and the real ones-fleas, whiskey, mules' hind legs, cholera, poisoned...