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...York Democrats were eating high on the hog. At Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, 1,300 diners paid $100 a plate for a meal of crab meat in avocado pear figaro, consommé de volaille madrilene, paupiette of Boston sole Marguery, filet mignon sauté with mushroom colbert, salad chiffonade Argenteuil, bombe vanilla sur socle with black cherries jubilee. Cocktails and two kinds of wine were thrown...
Dinner (9:30 p.m.) is only rarely a banquet these days; sometimes there are only W. R. and Marion Davies. Oftener a few regulars show up, like Columnist Louella Parsons, Princess Conchita Sepulveda Pignatelli, society writer of the Los Angeles Examiner. Their host eats heartily (favorite delicacies: cracked crab, pheasant or duck just barely heated), and keeps the table talk on a high plane. Risque stories are out; Hearst recently reprimanded a woman guest who cut loose with a mild "damn." Every night the inevitable movie begins at 11, and bedtime...
...toughest test, he had to find two dead ducks which had been planted among the rushes across a 150-foot-wide bay. Shed waited calmly at the water's edge until he got the signal from Bakewell. Then he plunged bravely into chilly Crab Orchard Lake, but not with...
...ship was the 8,800-ton Pacific Explorer (formerly World War I freighter Mormacrey), the first big floating fish cannery owned by the U.S. Government. It needed all this un-nautical equipment to process daily 700 cases of canned crab and 150 tons of filleted and frozen fish, store 6,100 tons all told. Next month the Pacific Explorer will pick up her brood of four trawlers, sail for a winter cruise in the South Pacific, then next spring head for the Bering...
Last week, around a track near London where racing dogs joined him on Thursday and Saturday nights, Bert ambled along at a casual gait until he had walked an even 1,000 miles. He rested as little as possible, slept in a little hut off the track, ate crab sandwiches and tea, went wandering off his beaten path occasionally-once to see himself in a newsreel. He smashed to bits a 137-year-old world's record of 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours; his time was only one-third that...