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...inconvenience in trains is the long lurching walk through three or four Pullmans to the diner only to find all the tables taken and a line of people waiting. Last November the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy installed several telephones in one of the streamlined Zephyrs so passengers might telephone the diner to reserve a table. The Southern Pacific's streamlined City of San Francisco has phones used by porters for service only. Last week Southern Pacific revealed that a new City of San Francisco now abuilding will have telephones in every compartment and in dining and observation cars so that...
...what Russians now know as a "Commissar's Saloon Car," for really big Reds today have a private car thrown in with their State jobs. There was an ordinary sleeping car for the NKVD and correspondents, another for the Davies party to use at night and a diner in which all food was exclusively the quick-frozen U. S. product of Heiress Davies' company. Though they did take into Russia 25 refrigerators containing 2,000 pints of quick-frozen cream (TIME, Dec. 28), Ambassador Davies deprecates press references to the well-publicized Davies commissary. Says he: "The exaggerations...
Despite the opening horseplay, at last week's Duck Dinner every diner except one was dead serious about the problem of North America's diminishing wild ducks. The lone, tipsy dissenter held up proceedings for ten minutes while he argued with great gravity that the press of urgent civic problems made duck discussion trivial if not unpatriotic. Earnest conservationists listened with growing restlessness as other speakers deplored the duck decrease, bemoaned the fact that since most ducks breed in Canada there is little the U. S. can do about it. The audience wanted something constructive. They...
Last week a fellow-diner of ours suddenly had a call. With very little warning he walked over and climbed to the top of an out-of-the-way radiator. He examined it intently and then announced, "Yes, it's still there". Producing a very fusty relie of a waffle, he explained that over a year ago in a frolicsome mood he had tossed it up to that lodging. Ever since we have caught ourselves eyeing all the obscure crannies and corners with half-conscious suspicion. A detachment of idle biddies (and there are plenty) seems to be the only...
HOTEL STATLER-- Ideal menu, faultless band, inimitable songstress, diner dancing, supper dancing--in short, it's the "tops...