Word: creams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hopes are high for new records and sparkling performances galore when the cream of the Eastern League crop meets in the Stadium tomorrow for the annual Heptagonal games. Although it was feared that accelerated schedules would upset the apple-cart, all seven of the Ivy league squads will appear, but Dartmouth will send only what call a "token" team...
...asked ice-cream manufacturers hereafter to make no more than 20 varieties-ten flavors (manufacturer's choice) in each of two grades. (WPB merely said "please," issued no fiat.) Ice-cream novelties in the forms of bananas, daisies, ducks, rabbits, other flora & fauna were restricted to five varieties per month; ices and sherbets to two flavors per month. Purpose: to save containers, labor, transportation...
Since U.S. dairy cattle give down more than 100,000,000,000 pounds of milk a year, the U.S. has plenty of milk. But ice cream -childhood's caviar, poor man's pheasant, fat lady's tempter -has the demerit of needing sugar as well as milk. There was no sign last week, however, that ice-cream output would be seriously curtailed. It just won't be so fancy. Although some big, inventive ice-cream makers have been turning out a total of 28 flavors, ten seemed plenty...
...followed by Lucille and Eddie, singers, and then the biggest wait of the evening. First Budge Alcorn entertained, then Filley came on again with more piano, including the beautiful "Body and Soul." When he stopped, the rioting started up again. Ice cream, of all things, started it when Joe Eldredge began throwing the bricks of cream to the hungry Yardlings...
...Ohio State Physiologist Hugh Boyd McGlade woke them periodically to ask if they were dreaming. He discovered that dreams were heralded by a "rapid rumbling" below the stomach, a twitching of the right foot. Good food to induce dreams, he found, was bananas. When his guinea pigs ate ice cream, fresh tomatoes or canned pineapple, they neither twitched, rumbled nor dreamed...