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Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace, who thinks (or says he thinks) that Greece has nothing to fear from Russian aggression, got a dose of Greek history last week. At a Washington banquet of the Greek fraternal order of Ahepa, Manhattan Lawyer Dean Alfange dusted off the story of Aeschines (389-314 B.C.), an apologist for Philip of Macedon. Said Alfange : "Today .. . Philip is Joe Stalin and I don't need to tell you who Aeschines...
Attending the same banquet, Harry Truman was more direct. "The Greeks also had a Henry Wallace," said the President, but he thought the man was Alcibiades (450-404 B.C.), who deserted Athens for its enemy Sparta, deserted Sparta to return to Athens. He was "the greatest demagogue of all time," said the President. "We are now facing the same danger to this country. ... If imitators of that ancient Greek conqueror want to see its liberties subverted, he ought to go to the country he loves so well and help them against his own country...
Called for: a $10,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to Paris' Radium Institute; by French Journalist Eve Curie, daughter of radium discoverers Pierre and Marie. Daughter Eve was invited to pick up the grant at the society's banquet in Philadelphia this week. Available in the U.S. but not invited: Eve's fellow-traveling sister Irene, a director of the institute's physics laboratories...
Within the hour, Don Vicente had his toothpick-thin cook, La Maga (The Wizard), at work. By nightfall, he had sent a ten-liter container by air to Gilberto Bosques, Mexican ambassador in Lisbon, with instructions on how to give a mole banquet for leading Portuguese statesmen. Free samples also went to restaurants and hotels in the big cities of the world. Said Don Vicente: "No one who eats mole can think of war and death...
Today no two recipes for mole quite agree, but all have the same basic ingredients. This is Miranda's banquet-size recipe : take 1 Ib. of chile anch0,1 Ib. of chile mulato, 10 oz. of chile pasilla, ½ Ib. of baked tomatoes, ½ Ib. of baked sesame seed, 2 oz. of shelled peanuts browned in fat, 2 slices of French bread browned in fat, 2 oz. of toasted pumpkin seeds, 3½ oz. of shelled toasted almonds, ½Ib. of chocolate,1 teaspoon of black pepper, 4 or 5 cloves, ½ oz. of raisins, one clove of roasted...