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...large spoonful of chili was dumped on their plates by brash, young (26) ex-Sergeant Marion Hargrove, author of the best-selling See Here, Private Hargrove. In a speech aptly called "See Here, Private Enterprise," Hargrove talked up to the N.A.M. like a Dutch nephew telling off his stick-in-the-mud uncles...
...Chili Williams, LiFE-famed pin-up model now in Hollywood, was maybe nude, maybe not, when the Mrs. stormed into Artist Husband Earl Moran's Manhattan studio one hot day last summer. Pretty Mrs. Moran, suing unhappy Artist Earl for divorce, said that Chili was. Chili (via Western Union) said she wasn't: I AM SUGGESTING THAT YOU TAKE BACK YOUR RIDICULOUS STATEMENT ABOUT ME -AND FAST. . . . Wired back Mrs. Moran: I TAKE BACK NOTHING. I KNOW WOMEN'S UNDERTHINGS WHEN I SEE THEM. YOURS WERE STREWN ALL OVER THE STUDIO...
...malodorous, milky-looking sour liquid which sells for ten centavos (2?) a liter, is swished down by low-class Mexicans as a substitute for water, which in Mexico is scant and bad. Some scientists believe that pulque's yeast and vitamins offset the unbalanced diet of chili, corn and beans, act as a counterirritant to hot peppers. But that is the best that can be said for it. Its production is unsanitary. Its sale is in filthy, squalid pubs. Its consumption produces a stumbling goofiness after the second or third liter...
...Dark Suit. In Washington, Sam Rayburn, 61, lives alone in a four-room apartment on Q Street, just off Connecticut Avenue, to which he invites friends to taste his own expertly prepared chili. When not dining at home, he usually goes to Martin's, an unobtrusive restaurant on Wisconsin Avenue, where he invariably occupies the booth next the kitchen door...
Menu on opening day, July 19, 1923: hamburger, hot dog, melted cheese sandwich, chili, tamales, hot cakes, coffee, tea, milk, near beer. This week's daily menus, 20 years later, include nine hot entrees chosen from a list of 2,700 dishes, all à la carte. Most expensive: New York cut steak, $3.25. Least expensive: hamburger, 35?. Most exotic (at $2.50): Le Coq Avin (boneless capon sautéed in butter, cognac; cooked in burgundy; served with chicken livers, truffles, mushrooms...