Word: cake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Food Processing, the industry's leading trade magazine, prodded processors to change their manufacturing techniques. Unless food men act quickly, the magazine warned, "food faddists" may gallop away with the issue of harmful fats in the diet, gravely hurt the food industry. The magazine suggested that makers of cake and piecrust mixes, for example, should consider shifting from hydrogenated to non-hydrogenated oils, carried suggestions from nutritionists that processors of vegetable fats change their formulas to provide more "good" unsaturated fatty acids and less of the saturated...
...universal custom for women to conceal their ages, but to deny two husbands and two kids-that takes the cake...
Going along amiably with the rituals required of an elder statesman when he becomes a year older, former President Herbert Hoover, a healthy 83, boarded the liner President Hoover at San Francisco, sliced a chunk from a 5-ft.-long birthday cake modeled after the ship. Earlier, he told reporters that the state of the nation, despite threats of war and inflation, is "the best in history." He reported that his health is "fundamentally good," then qualified his diagnosis wryly: "After you pass the scriptural limit of three score and ten years, your longevity depends mainly on pills...
...gift," etc., etc. Then came the topper: "a special, never-to-be-forgotten present"-an Esther Williams swimming pool. The benediction: "This is the National Broadcasting television network." Afterward, burly stagehands struck the chapel set and carted off the china and silverware, leaving the guests to eat their wedding cake off paper towels...
Giraudoux's views of the world through rose-colored glasses, his frothy creation, a cake with two layers of pink frosting on top, and his celestial wedding of irony and humor charm us. With numerous improvements, the Tufts production should be a delightful evening's entertainment...