Word: creams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week's deal the cream of the Dalmatian coast went, not to puppet Croatia, but to the Kingdom of Italy. Benito Mussolini also knows that Napoleonic kingdoms are not always permanent. For the present, however, Il Duce and his King Aimone will have the loyalty of Poglavnik Pavelitch, who plotted the assassination of King Alexander for Il Duce, then hid out in Italy for seven years until he could help in the assassination of Yugoslavia. Serbian komitajis had a better idea: in their list of men marked for assassination, Pavelitch's name led all the rest...
Anyone who lives in the country and drinks unpasteurized milk from an infected cow, or pours a spot of tainted cream in his coffee, is liable to come down with a low fever and vague pains. He may feel fine every morning, but in the afternoon his temperature soars, and he gradually loses strength. This may keep up for years. Symptoms range all the way from mild backaches to bone and nerve infections, heart disease, insanity. Hardly an organ in the body is safe from invasion. Victims of brucellosis may be suspected of having tuberculosis, meningitis, arthritis, influenza, glandular disorders...
...view of the capacity crowd expected, both dining rooms, the rotunda, and the Lower Common Room will be thrown open to the dancing couples. As an improvement over earlier Jubilees a printed program is offered. A midnight supper with hamburgers, ice cream, and cake will supersede the evening's punch bowl at 12:30 o'clock...
Prokofiev: String Quartet (Stuyvesant Quartet; Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50) The Soviet composer's only quartet, issuec to celebrate his soth birthday. Nourishing but mostly dry; Prokofiev adds little cream and sugar to the Wheaties...
...POCKETFUL OF CLUES-James R. Langham-Simon & Schuster ($2). Tough Detective Sammy Abbott, who has a morbid appetite for peanut butter on his ice cream, sees a ragamuffin giving the hotfoot to a park-bench sleeper. The sleeper does not twitch. In fact underneath his newspaper he has no head at all. A story of civic corruption in Santa Monica, with mayor dead and crooked politicians confounded...