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Government-issue 3.2 beer is an innocuous, vaguely sudsy fluid which can be closely approximated by steeping a yeast cake and a tea leaf in a gallon of any good, mild barley water. But when U.S. prohibitionists heard that the Army was issuing it to the front-line soldiers in Korea at the rate of a can a day, they reacted almost as if G.I.s were being taught the opium habit.* As a result, the Department of Defense nervously directed General MacArthur to cut off the free beer issue immediately...
That night the town gave Grandma a 100-place birthday banquet. She easily blew out all 90 candles on her 79-lb. cake, told well-wishers that she felt "no older than I did at 70." Highlight of her day was a congratulatory wire from President Truman: "May the spirit of spring and eternal sunshine be yours always...
...they called a "limited war," something new for a nation which had been raised on world wars with world peaces in between. A limited war, it turned out, could be convenient. It allowed you to keep the pleasant illusion of peace at home while you fought; you had your cake and ate it. But at the same time a limited war was a strained thing, full of contradictions and paradoxes: Army divisions sailed under security orders with flashbulbs blinking and bands playing, and in Japan F-80 pilots ate breakfast were driven to the airfield by their wives, kissed these...
Surrounded by relatives and friends in a suite at Manhattan's Hotel Sherry Netherland, durable Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch celebrated his 80th birthday with champagne and caviar, ice cream and cake. Baruch, who back in 1947 said that he was bowing out of public life, had definitely changed his mind: "The sands are running out for me, but I'm not senile yet. I'll know when I am, and I'll shut up. But I am still able to cope with those fellows [in Washington], and I'll keep telling them what I think...
...German Reds were plugging if I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake-and explaining the lyrics to mean that the U.S. had resorted to food rationing...