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...willingness to cooperate on any or all of the six measures. Included for consideration are the following proposals: elimination or breads for dinner; a milk limit of one glass per meal; elimination of cakes or cookies with ice cream; 15 percent curtailments in meat and fish supplies; removal of dessert from noon meal; elimination of all wheat cereals...
...Gundel's Restaurant in Budapest's Town Park an American could eat a black-market meal of pate de foie gras, venison, wine, salad, and dessert for $1.66. The same meal would cost a dollarless Hungarian six times the best monthly salary any Hungarian could earn today. Hungarians got five ounces of bread daily. City-dwellers jammed trains to scour the countryside for food. . . . In Italy, where one of Europe's lowest bread rations was about to be cut again, Premier Alcide de Gaspari warned: "We are on the eve" of starvation...
...Dessert, Please, Gargantua. In Bernardsville, N.J., James Adams, as research on "How Gullible Is the American Public?", wrote to Westchester County housewives offering trained apes as inexpensive, silent servants, got a few enthusiastic inquiries...
...Brown's superb soprano raised again in the music of Porgy and Bess; and The Man I Love given an added pinch of pepper by Hazel Scott's post-graduate left hand are only a few of the courses served up in this lavish Gershwin feast. For dessert and liqueur there is a spine-tingling performance of the Rhapsody in Blue, arranged, conducted and played by three members of the original priesthood-Ferde Grofé, Paul Whiteman and Levant...
Tone's exactress sister-in-law (Binnie Barnes) plays the camp circuit, drops in for lunch. Tone's father (Henry Stephenson) hasn't time to finish dessert before he's due for Home Guard drill...