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...wields the might of the largest standing army on earth (725,000 men?U. S. Army 136,217). To grasp even a fraction of Stalin's purpose and achievements?which today are mainly economic?one must grapple with no easy map. Like stars in the firmament, like grains of caviar spread by a lavish Russian on his pancakes, are the elements of Stalin's Five-Year Plan...
Less experienced is Frau Dyhrenfurth. whose good looks are only excelled by her tennis. In charge of supplies, she has in her train caviar, Swedish bread, 500 bottles of Munich beer, champagne, whiskey, brandy, a phonograph, 50,000 feet of motion picture film, three cameras, a dark room tent, a typewriter, face cream, a ton of Swiss chocolate...
...attributed to another reason--there is no glamour for the public in the reading of scientific achievements. Sports and social events have always made a greater general appeal. To the majority of readers these news items are more personal, whereas the advances that scholars have made are "caviar to the general...
However I do not think we need be unduly alarmed. Many of the boys who wear French Crosses still refer to our late, great allies as the Damned Frogs, and I have eaten much chop suey and caviar and felt no inclination either to open a hand laundry or join the Third International...
...prophecy alone did Critic Gushing confine his last week's chatter. In addition he had scrambled together a list of famed musicians' food fancies. It read: "Toscanini. Kraftbruhe mit Ei (consomme with raw egg). . . . Iturbi, caviar on apples . . . Horowitz, Russian cutlets . . . Stokowski, raw vegetables . . . Hutcheson, mushrooms (he grows and eats them) . . . Cortot, bread and gravy . . . Brailowsky, lump sugar . . . Professor Erskine, raw beef . . . the Leners of the Lener Quartet, orange ice . . . Melchior, green apples . . . Gabrilovitch, sardine oil . . . Gershwin, cereal and milk . . . Schumann-Heink, onions . . . Jeritza, cabbage." Most, if not all of this list is verifiable fact...