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Competition for Chopin. The Cook Book may give a little trouble to brides who can't afford expensive ingredients or don't know their way about a kitchen. Alice assumes that her readers not only have money but know how to make dough and can keep several other kitchen operations going at once. She is very firm, too, about measurements and directions generally: "Pour them [the eggs] into a saucepan-yes, a saucepan, no, not a frying pan." This is richer cooking than most U.S. diners are used to, but it will be the fiercest Francophobe...
Even the most prosperous poets, said prosperous Poet Ogden (Hard Lines) Nash, sometimes like to "make a little dough" on a sideline. Nash's sideline: guest expert on television panels. Said he: "TV is the biggest racket ever invented. I love it. Half an hour's fun a week-and they pay you for it ... Most of the mail I get is from eleven-year-old children who say 'I loved your book, David Copperfield, please send me your picture...
From Paste to Platinum. When Max Factor Sr., an immigrant Polish wigmaker, started improving on nature in Hollywood, the screen's silent sirens wore only two kinds of powder-white and flesh-colored-both as pasty as dough. Factor developed new. softer powder shades, more complimentary rouge tones, and an easily applied foundation grease. Soon such stars as Gloria Swanson, Joan Crawford, Mary Pickford and Clara Bow were wearing Factor makeup off the movie lots, and U.S. women, who had previously thought that any makeup made them look "fast," started clamoring for the natural-looking powder and rouge. When...
...freshman victory was Coach Corey Whyn's seventh straight after a loss to Exeter in the season's opener. Crimson defeats came in the first singles, where Steve Gottlieb lost to Bill Cullen, 6-0, 6-4, and in the fourth, where Dough Gardner was edged in three sets. The Yardling singles victors were lien Heckscher, Cal Place, Barry Bochm, and Charlie Edwards...
...with his mock-worshipful pals, Sadakichi lived on an Indian reservation, posing as an Indian. Actually, he was the son of a German coffee merchant who had married a Japanese girl. His first name means "steady luck" in Japanese. Fields contended that it meant "Gimme some dough!" And Barrymore stoutly maintained that "Sadakichi is the mating call of rabid, though sacred monkeys, playing among the . . . towers of Angkor...