Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Round a portly, florid French chef in a hole-in-the-wall restaurant on rue de Longchamp clustered 60 homesick Mexicans. The peppery air crackled and popped with counsel on the making of tortillas and chile relleno on current Paris rations...
...course, Paris was not exactly as they had left it. There was no electric current to work the elevator between the two main floors. But there was enough fuel for heat. If famine threatened, the Duke's chef de cuisine, Maitre Le Laurin, a magician with truffles and morilles, was assured of rations from the British Embassy. And the Germans had not drunk all the vintage wines. From the boulevard Suchet they could go down again to the Côte d'Azur, to long walks in the grounds of their villa La Cröe and basks...
...Farge, describing this painful encounter in his second year at Groton School. "Perhaps I had wrapped something in toilet paper when I was packing." Whatever the cause, the dart stuck. Throughout the day the inspired bully developed it "through Bumwad Inky to Bumptink to Bump, and finally to the chef d'oeuvre of his career - Bop. ... I fought him and was licked, that evening and several times more in the next few days. It was too late then. I was Bop. ... I had joined the outcasts...
TIME'S Paris Correspondent Sherry Mangan telephoned the library, was connected: 1) with the chef of the library canteen, who admitted a change of cats but was not sure of the new cat's sex; 2) with the lady manager of the canteen, who refused to become embroiled in politics; 3) with a bull-voiced man who, apparently jealous of the library's dignity, denied that it maintained a cat of any sex. But L'Epoque stuck to its guns, insisted that the cat was a regular government fonctionnaire and that its upkeep allowance...
...Radio's wry, rough Beatrice Kay and bland, smooth Phil Silvers contribute some likable comedy; William Gaxton's performance, as Dr. Haymes's worried father, is a fine, quiet piece of backstage sentimentalism. The big production numbers (hung mainly on the idea that Gaxton, as Ze Chef, marshalls forth young women dressed to represent condiments and fancy desserts) are heavy, garish, good-humored and preposterous...