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...food, always good, but never fancy, attracts a capacity crowd three times a day and a small soda fountain at one end of the counter caters to fair crowd of chronic in-between-mealers. Bill prides himself on his food and says that it is the home cooking that is the secret of his success, but the crowd gathers at meal time no less to hear his colorful chatter than to sample his table d'hote...
...Every chronic complainer offer his own solution to the problem. None of them are practical, however. Though they may urge elimination of the double choice, such a plan practiced with the Naval Officers in the Union has helped neither to improve the food nor to cut down expense. There is no solution to a problem whose roots lie deeply embedded in the exigencies of the war. As long as transportation, production, and manpower are devoted to winning the war, food at Harvard will continue to serve merely as a sustainer of life, to be swallowed without relish...
Mutesa was born in British Reformer Sir Albert Cook's house, overlooking Lake Victoria. Three years ago Mutesa's father, Sir Daudi Chwa, died of a chronic hangover. Until Mutesa came of age last week, Buganda was run by a regency including aged Prime Minister Martin Luther. Mutesa meanwhile played football, rode his bicycle, studied English at King's College in Budo...
...bitter, confused news from the Solomons had undermined faith in the frankness of Army & Navy communiqués (see p. 77). Confidence in Government news slumped to an all-time low; and with it, the pangs of Army & Navy censorship hit home again like a fierce stab of chronic appendicitis...
Hell & High Water. Time after time Tommy Hart mutters the chronic Navy gripe about Army fanfare: "During the first few days our Navy patrol planes crippled an enemy capital ship, and claimed nothing better than crippling. . . . [They] also seized opportunities for small-scale attacks-the bomb-down-the-smokestacks stunts-but that was flea-bite stuff about which they did not talk. . . . The wing [Patrol Ten] went back to the Malay barrier-fighting and flying and fighting. . . . But getting the information-really as much as the High Command could effectively use-getting it in the face of weather, Japanese Zeros...