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...milkshed. When farmers got high prices for their milk, dealers were squeezed between production prices and the unwillingness of the public to pay more than 13-14? a quart. When production prices were down (due either to competition between the States or general overproduction) dealers and handlers were in clover while farmers pastured in barren fields...
...living things." Not too solemn about Science, Professor Sears illustrates his discourse with such examples as the famed connection between the number of elderly spinsters in England and the prosperity of Australia. Spinsters like to keep cats, cats kill field mice, preventing them from destroying bees, which pollinate clover, whose seeds Australia must import from England to fertilize its soil...
...Hollywood's Clover Club one night last week cafe society saw the nearest thing yet to a man biting a dog. Pretender Extraordinary Mike Romanoff, of Vilna, Russia, and/or Hillsboro, Ill., after some 20 years on cafe society's cuff, threw a party. The formal invitation, engraved with a big Imperial R, read: "To discharge his social obligations past and future, we have received commands from his Imperial Highness, Prince Michael Romanoff, to invite ( ) to a buffet supper on Saturday evening, June the tenth, at the Clover Club."; and continuing: "Guests will please bring their own liquor...
Saturday's Clover Club celebration was a great success. Mike's current patron, Jules Stein of the Music Corporation of America, donated an orchestra. Mike himself showed up with $25 in his pocket which he pyramided to $125 at the gaming tables before the party broke up at 6 a. m. Missing from the guest list were a great many familiar Hollywood partygoers, including fat Elsa Maxwell, cafe society's coast-to-coast whoops-a-daisy. Explained the host: "No phonies...
Author Smitter tells a story strongly reminiscent of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Says Big Russ, trying to entice his little pal Bennie (the narrator) to the woods and clam beds: "There'd be the smell of new clover hay and cornflowers in the air and by'n'by the fire would get low and go out and you'd see the fireflies . . . and way off somewhere -t'hell 'n' gone over the river-you'd hear a cowbell...