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...hands, while a lady critic at the other end of the table asked if the fish were inquisitive. Bob Young said that when he was photographing barracudas he had the feeling sometimes that somebody was watching him. "But what if they're hungry?" the lady asked, digging into her dessert. By then mine had come, and so had WHRB's microphone at the head of the table. Bob Young, who was not at the head of the table, suggested, "Well, there are lots of things you wouldn't particularly eat. I guess." The lady's dessert had gone...
Pirelli put in cafeterias to give all workers at least one big meal every day at a nominal fee of eight lire (about 1?) per meal. Sample menu: minestrone, roast veal, vegetables, cheese, dessert, half a pint of wine. Workers can go to free vacation camps on the Italian Riviera; their children can go to the Italian Alps in summertime, while retired oldsters can spend their waning years in a free home at Iduno, near Lake Como. As individual productivity has gone up to double prewar records, Pirelli has rewarded his workers with repeated pay boosts, pushed their real wages...
...even sleeping, in totally un-bootlike posture. Although it was Sunday, he had ordered a "field day" -a complete cleanup of the barracks with swab, scrub brush, creosote and yellow soap. At supper that evening the watchful McKeon had noticed that some of his boots took second helpings of dessert, despite his warning (as one recruit recalled) "against overeating sweets, especially when out on the rifle range. It makes shooting more difficult." With calm detachment, McKeon ordered another scrubdown of the already bleach-cleaned barracks, then decided to interrupt it with the night march-a form of stern discipline that...
...there, he has hated the family ever since. His well-to-do brother Ferdinand wants to drop the feud because Maloret is important politically. Ferdinand is the kind of man who, on hearing that his favorite son wants to enter the priesthood, says flatly: "You'll get no dessert until you have changed your mind." Hearing the shocking story of their mother's shame for the first time, he writes to Honoré: "The whole thing remains revolting, of course, but after all, she only yielded to one man, and he was a sergeant. In fact, we cannot...
...After dessert came favors for each lady (a paper fan and a peppermint "Mamie" carnation flown in from Colorado) and presents for the guest of honor: an antique fan of mother-of-pearl and lace and Iowa steaks, which Club President Mrs. Whitney Gillilland hoped Ike might cook himself. Then all sat back to watch the 30-minute telecast on monitors spaced around the ballroom...