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...nights later he turned up in Paris, bone-weary, unshaven, still clad in a dirty paratroop uniform. At the apartment of TIME'S chief military correspondent, Charles Christian Wertenbaker, Mr. Capa consented to eat some ham and eggs and beefsteak and bread and butter and cheese and cake, and to drink some coffee and burgundy and champagne and cognac. Between swallows he explained what it was like...
...minor crisis arose on the trip to Yalta when the President observed his 63rd birthday. The President's chefs had baked a cake; so had the cooks for the officers' mess. It looked as though one group of chefs would be disappointed, until Daughter Anna Boettiger solved the dilemma. She ordered three more cakes, of varying sizes. The cakes were piled one on top of the other. The first four were labeled First Term, Second Term, Third Term, Fourth Term. On the top cake was a huge question mark. Wrote Correspondent Cornell: "It produced plenty of laughs...
From that time on, although he occasionally tried to pull out, he was hip-deep in Chinese affairs. He became editor of the Far Eastern Review, with an eye to breaking down "the cake of custom" blocking the modernization of China. He had a seat at the negotiations over Japan's notorious Twenty-One Demands upon China in 1915, and helped soften the blow which would have made China a vassal. The Japs never forgave...
Rapee thinks that the game will stampede dyed-in-the-wool pinochle players, but that the skill required in bridge will keep it the favorite game of the experts. In family parlors, he admits, Check may take the cake...
...story: a lonely young Londoner (Ray Milland), at an apparently fatuous parish bazaar, by mischance speaks a password which puts him in possession of a cake. When various people threaten his life and risk theirs in their effort to get the cake away from him, he begins to realize that he somehow has the key to an elaborate and very sinister Nazi spy-plot. When the detective he hires to help him is murdered, he is in no position to call the matter to the attention of the police, because he has only recently been acquitted of the mercy-killing...