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Nevertheless, prices will probably still be higher than last year, because the U.S. is eating meat at a belt-bursting clip. The American Meat Institute estimated that U.S. meat consumption will hit an annual rate of 160 Ibs. per capita in the last quarter of 1950 v. 144 Ibs. for all of last year...
...crop was short because floods during the last three months had drowned some 4,000,000 sheep, disrupted transport of the clip to the market. When Auctioneer J. L. Brassil asked for bids on a lot of grease wool (i.e., raw wool) that would have brought 91? a Ib. only two months ago, a Frenchman quickly offered $1.12, lost out to a Briton who got it for $1.32. Said Auctioneer Brassil: "Never did I dream of such prices . . ." The average: 94?, v. 60? last season...
...through another week of festivities at the French seaside resort of Deauville. He played baccarat, attended the races, acted as judge of a bathing beauty contest, downed quantities of frogs' legs and lobster, received two Egyptian Channel swimmers (see SPORT), and smilingly suffered a Parisian nightclub songstress to clip off his black tie when he would not rise and follow her to the dance floor. Across the Channel, the British press cocked a scornful eye at the goings-on. "Never," sniffed the London Daily Mirror, "have modesty and anonymity so ruthlessly been done to death. Never have solitude...
...handful of aging masters, French artists have been increasingly aware, lately, of a young master now dead. Francis Gruber was only 36 when he died of asthma and T.B. in 1948; his Montparnasse friends remember him as an overpowering gay blade who talked, drank and painted at a furious clip and did all three magnificently. His paintings, on show in a Paris gallery last week, were sad and bony as a squirrel in March-cold and sometimes acid in color, scalpel-sharp in line. They consisted mostly of hollow-chested nudes, their breasts pinched with cold, whose bones and muscles...
...marines, surround them. As the jeep comes toward them I witness something of an advance in American communication with the people of the country. A marine is passing a mine detector over the clothing and packs of the refugees. Any metal-a rifle barrel, a pistol, a clip of ammunition, maybe the parts of a radio-will presumably be spotted by the detector. Anyhow, it is better than guns and the policemen whom I have seen at work...