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...houses which haven't changed much since they were confiscated by patriot fathers in the days of the Revolution. Several ageless landmarks lie between Story and Hilliard Streets. just a block from Brattle Square; and of these, Perhaps the most interesting is the building currently occupied by the Cock Horse Restaurant...
...Pratt place became a restaurant in 1913 when it was purchased and restored by Miss. Frances D. Gage, and open days the Cock Horse Inn. But that time Cambridge had long since parted with her cherished "chestnut three", in favoring of widening Brattle Street. But what the Cock House lacked in hallowed foliage, it made up in wholesome tasty food. Before long its fame as am eating place had spread throughout New England. This to the extent that a rhapsodic passage on "crab meat souffle" a la Cock Horse may still be read in Donald Heinz's "Adventures in Eating...
...Baltimore, Philip La Follette, onetime Governor of Wisconsin, also spoke darkly of the "disintegrating British Empire." No matter who controls Europe, said La Follette, "we can be the cock of the walk for generations to come if we mind our own business...
...Italian troops, harried from position to position by the British all spring, were a mixed lot to look at. There were aviators who had not felt a joy stick for months, sailors who had swum ashore from battered battlecraft, Alpini swinging their mountain picks, Bersaglieri with un-cocky cock feathers on their steel helmets...
Stalin, Mussolini and an unidentified Japanese cock their ears in the background (see cut). Said Hungerford: "We figured that cartoons combining humor with serious fact would have more of an appeal to the average worker than most ordinary conventional posters." Because FBI cannot engage in commercial activity (Hungerford and Sherman expect to make their work pay), it could not sponsor the posters. But by week's end, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. had bought 3,600, Westinghouse 1,680; other defense manufacturers were standing in line for their share...