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...want to read a good imitation of a serious novel, try this one. It has many earmarks of what passes for worth; a pioneer panorama, noble savages, slick Manhattanites and Chicagoans, "frankness," a (pseudo) devil-may-care style. Author Tiffany Thayer knows how to butter his bread, knows many a reader will put up with oleomargarine if it is spread thick enough...
...13th floor. When the directors of this company meet, they test its products as well as discuss its affairs. Orange juice from National Juice Corp. slakes their thirst. Dietician Marye Dahnk of Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp. sometimes makes them cheese sandwiches on a special griddle. Sheffield milk, butter and ice-cream are served from the big refrigerator which adjoins the president's office. For these foods and many others are the stock-in-trade of National Dairy Products Corp., brightest star in the industrial milky way. Thirty-one directors sit on National's board. Among them are Jerome...
...wonder if all our English visitors must recite that carry on tale about the frogs in the cream vat and the pat of butter. Here Cosmo Hamilton repeats it (TIME, May 4). I heard that English-Aesop fable delivered during the War by an English clergyman spouting to the Catholic Actors Guild. But the reverend gentleman said the two that hopped into the cream were mice, not frogs. A frog wouldn't die in cream, would he or she? Unless she or he ate till he or she sank? A mouse would drown...
...Finland's present Constitution does not provide for public referenda.) Finnish observers credited this parliamentary Wetness last week to the final windup of the famed Stahlberg kidnapping case, an affair whose origin had nothing whatever to do with Prohibition. Two months ago, after frugally breakfasting on bread and butter, porridge and coffee, out for a walk went Finland's George Washington or First President (1919-25)-Professor Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg. With him walked his wife. Esther, one of Finland's ablest female novelists. Scarcely were they out of sight of their house than they were whisked...
...realtors on their way to their state convention were lettered: WE ZOOM FOR ZENITH. And a banner proclaimed: ZENITH THE ZIP CITY-ZEAL, ZEST AND ZOWIE! Heading the delegation was one George Follansbee Babbitt ". . . 46 years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His face was babyish . . . despite his wrinkles and the red spectacle-dents on the slopes of his nose. He was not fat but he was exceedingly well fed. ..." This...