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...Hodges usually pulls his jeep to a roadside and digs into a can of K rations-he does not like to cause a flurry of deference to his stars by taking lunch at some command post. But, back at his headquarters, the General insists that the staff officers who dine with him appear in spic-&-span uniforms. When he enters the mess his officers hop to attention and hold it until he nods them at ease. He dresses immaculately, but detests flashy uniforms, refers to service and decorations ribbons as "brag rags." But he wears his own on formal occasions...
What Price Unity? In proletarian Paris the people dine on soup, macaroni, maybe a little bread and sour wine. But among Communist leaders there is confidence in approaching victory. The Communist Party is the only party which is well organized, and has a program. It is growing...
Wrote Correspondent Mead: "As you go from lunch party to cocktail party to late dinner, you realize that these people live more beautifully, possibly, than any people in the world. . . . You go to dine at Count Borromeo's and find that he has discovered an early 18th-Century gold and white vaulted ceiling, uniting five rooms, so he has torn down the walls to make one room-27 yards long-that he partitions off partially with screens into various dining-and sitting-rooms, leaving the superb ceiling to create a decorative unity between them...
...Hollywood knows that Restaurant LaRue is the fashionable place to dine. Every evening some 280 fortunate film colonists jam the pistachio-&cocoa-striped booths, patiently wait their turn in the ebony-&-red-leather bar, or crowd the overflow tables on the flower-boxed French terrace. Every evening hundreds of disappointed latecomers must take potluck elsewhere...
...staff family of 15-the regular members of his mess-dine at home nightly. Their day's routine is done, but they stay around to talk after dinner. A half-dozen guests, mostly military, are usually spaced around the dinner table...