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Gastronome. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Koontz, whose husband Jesse complained that she chewed snuff, spit it on the walls, and dumped garbage in his bed, won her divorce case. The grounds: he had threatened to chop her head off for putting the wrong milk in his gravy...
...taught from the stirring life around her. Each morning she put on her black hat with a feather on it, her scarf, galoshes, sweater and coat, and went to her class. She earned her $2,100 a year. At night, after she had graded papers, she cooked a chop and potatoes, carried her supper into the big empty dining room, lit the chandelier, put a book beside the plate, and read as she ate, "the flowing sentences combing out her thoughts, resting her mind as delicously as if the sea swept rhythmically through her head...
...Every day he rose at 8, draped a bathrobe over his pajamas and watched his breakfast roll in-grapefruit, cereal, soft-boiled egg, toast, coffee. There were few things an old man could enjoy, but he damn well did like and insist on grapefruit, and for lunch a chop and spinach. He liked spinach. No cigars. Gave up cigars 35 years ago on the advice of his doctor. A touch of whiskey now and then...
Osaka-born Schuichi Kusaka (TIME, Sept. 20) has my vote for a permanent position at Smith College, or any other institution that has the foresight to hire him-and I'm being trained to shoot, stab or chop Tojo's men first and talk afterward...
Soybean sprouts. Grown indoors in a flower pot or jar, they can be raised the year round from dried field soybeans, sprout in five days or less, can be cooked as quickly as a pork chop, have several times as much vitamin B complex as the bean itself, rival tomatoes in vitamin C. A crisp, tasty dish, they have been a staple of the Chinese diet for centuries...