Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Double or Nothing. In the suburbs of Cook County, the elementary school population has doubled to 132,000 in the last decade, and 6,000 pupils now attend school only half a day. The North Palos Park school must use its gym as a classroom, has had to cut out kindergarten to make room for first-graders, and in spite of the fact that many classes have topped the 40-pupil mark, the school is on double shift. Palatine's pupils have overflowed into St. Paul Evangelical and Reformed Church, those in Park Forest are using private houses...
Such complete integration is an old dream of young Prime Minister Mintoff, son of a onetime British navy cook stationed at Malta's dockyard. A Rhodes Scholar and civil engineer, ambitious young Mintoff has been a leader in Malta's Labor Party since 1936, and Prime Minister since last March. "If I fail in this," he said last week, "I shall resign, and the others will have to govern Malta as best they...
...ordered him to get up ("He spoke like a military commander"), get in his car, drive one block and turn right. As he started the right turn God gave him the healing power. Oral drove to the parsonage, ran into the house and shouted to his wife: "Evelyn, cook me a meal; the Lord has spoken...
...with splashy pictures, Confidential's sale has grown even faster than its journalistic reputation has fallen. It has also spawned a dozen guttery imitators, e.g., Hush Hush, The Lowdown, Exposed, Uncensored, On the Q.T. In Hollywood Cinemactor Humphrey Bogart reports that "everybody reads it, but they say the cook brought it into the house." In Chicago a society matron summed up the simultaneous appall and appeal that she feels for the magazine: "I've read it from cover to cover, and I think it ought to be thrown out of the house...
...range and subtlety, French cooking is the best in the world, and Escoffier may well rank France's most celebrated gastronomic names. He lacked the lavish glamor of Caréme, but surpassed him in austere art. He lacked the wit of Brillat-Savarin, but Brillat-Savarin was more gourmet than cook. He lacked the temperament of the great 17th century chef, Vatel, but was more imaginative. Vatel committed suicide, impaling himself on his sword because the sole did not arrive in time for an important dinner. When asked what he would have done in Vatel's place...