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...York's photogenic Mayor Vincent ("Impy") Impellitteri celebrated his 27th wedding anniversary by posing behind a double-deck cake with his wife Betty, and bussing her in a manner that would do him no harm in the city's forthcoming free-for-all mayoralty contest. That done, he and Betty, herself no slouch at politics, went off to the next event: opening up a "Women for Impy" headquarters...
...thinks it worth playing. The ladies may knit with muted needles, but there is not another sound until the record is ended. While the music is on, Kinsey eyes his guests to see whether they catch the nuances of a fine performance. Between numbers, and at a sherbet and cake intermission, there is no idle chatter-only the point-counterpoint of lofty criticism. When the last piece has been played, the guests rise as one, thank the Kinseys for a lovely evening, and leave in a body...
...first book: Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America (not published until 1943). For the distinguished members of the New England Botanical Club, Kinsey and Fernald spent days preparing a wild dinner: cold pigweed salad, pickles from cucumber root, bread from the acorns of swamp white oaks, squawberries, a cake of ground hickory nuts filled with blueberries and topped with maple syrup. It was, he reports, a great success...
...Them Eat Cake. In Bernalillo, N.Mex., blaming county officials for denying him funds and local grocers for refusing him credit, Sheriff Dick Montoya announced that he had no food to feed his prisoners, released all five inmates of the Sandoval County jail...
...Isotta Rossellini, twin daughters of Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman and Italian Director Roberto Rossellini, were neatly upstaged by their elder brother Robertino, 3, who did his best to beat them at blowing out their birthday candles. Half-brother Renzo, n, waited quietly in the background, apparently more interested in cake than in candles...