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...price of bread zoomed. Last week's removal of all but the last remnants of Canada's wartime* controls sent it up an average of 3? a loaf (biggest reported boost: 6? for a 24-oz. loaf in Timmins, Ont.). It was no help to eat cake. Bakeries were all set to charge more for cake...
Chicken & Cake. Last week, this monotony dissolved in a round of official parties. Brazil's Foreign Minister, Conference Chairman Raúl Fernandes, gave a dinner and a buffet extravaganza for 1,000 in the Quitandinha's Dom Pedro I room. Guests had chicken, lobster, 20 kinds of cake, 168 bottles of Scotch, and watched Brazilian women curtsy to Dom Pedro III, pretender to Brazil's non-existent throne (the party's cost: $5,000). This week, with party after party set for the Truman visit, delegates' wives would have no more time for bridge...
...Tennis Association and the West Side Tennis Club. As grave and important as Cabinet ministers, tennis' venerable scribes and pharisees sat in the marquee. It was a state occasion. On a table at the edge of the spotless carpet of green turf, looking not unlike a pretentious wedding cake, stood the piece of silver that all the excitement was about: the Davis Cup. This was the first challenge round in the U.S. since...
Recipe. In Memphis, a queasy husband seeking a divorce complained to the court that his wife cooked him up a one-dish breakfast composed of a layer of beans, one of sardines, one of salmon, topped with a cake...
...seven with the help of his folksy stunts. He held annual breakfasts for grandmothers, sponsored school essays and let winners come to dinner with Bob Herberger and boss one of his departments for a day. He also had a deft touch with employees. He bought each one a cake on his birthday, gave brief parties in the store and held ten-minute get-togethers each morning to plan selling strategy. Bob's technique paid off: his St. Cloud store sells 3½ times the national average per square foot for stores in its class. Last year his small-town...