Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moans & Blues (Lizzie Miles; Cook LP). Some authentic rhythm-and-blues singing fresh from a New Orleans nightspot. Chanter Miles, sixtyish, sounds like a little girl in Lazy River, and at least half her age in Ain't Gonna Give You None of My Jelly Roll (". . . Pas un petit morceau de mon gateau" she chortles in the second chorus). Best item: Plain Ole Blues, a cumulative band number to which the irrepressible Lizzie adds a polytonal obbligato...
...cranberry cook, like most of the help, is Norweigian, while the customers are almost all native Bostonians. Each guest was greeted by a hostess, who was also my adviser on what's good that's Norwegian. Among her suggestions was whale steak. I replied that pickled herring would suffice. As I gulped water she apologized for the herrings' appearance; "The goats' choose sauce is all gone." Relieved, I asked her if there were my more special Norwegian recipes. Her answer was a copy of Ola's Norwegian Cook Book describing cucumber sandwiches, with the bread dipped in sherry, the vaguely...
...imply that Messrs. MacFarland, Rendall, Howes, Schitler, et. sl. are not prepared scholastically to cope with the Harvard. We only wish that Coach Vie Heyliger had prepared them in the little things before their journey to Colorado Springs. Perhaps he could have had the team invited to Martha Cook to learn the fine art of balancing a tea cup. Their training should also have included a session with Prof. Eisenberg of the Fine Arts Department, so that they would know a Rembrandt from a Goys...
Summoned last December by telegram to a meeting of twelve party leaders at Cook County Democratic headquarters, the Morrison Hotel, Kennelly was dumped in a session of less than four minutes. "Is it unanimous then?" he asked. "It's unanimous!" snapped Congressman William Dawson, boss of the South Side (Negro) wards. "They gave me a fast deal," said Kennelly later. The machine's choice for mayor: beefy County Chairman Richard Daley, 52, a fervent party regular, who explains, "No man can walk alone...
...audiophile is on the prowl for the utmost realism, he will have gone binaural, with double sound channels and speakers, in the manner of cinema's stereophonic sound. At present he can use this expensive setup only to play tape and the records of one small company (Cook...