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...Dessert and Lent. The snail, surviving all attacks, has interested man since earliest times. Cadart tells of Stone Age people who lived almost exclusively on snails. The Greeks loved snails both gastronomically and scientifically. Aristotle described them in detail; Pliny told how the Romans cultivated them for food. In Roman Gaul, snails were served as dessert, and in medieval Europe they were raised by convents and monasteries as canonical food for Lent...
Petunias on the Road. Probably the greatest public indication of the prosperity is on the highways and in the parking lots. This week the U.S. auto industry passed the 3,000,000 mark in 1955 auto production, the earliest that mark has ever been reached. Lined with brightly colored new cars (even some in girdle pink), parking lots are taking on the appearance of petunia beds. Said Drug Salesman John Tinder of Seymour, Ind.: "There's one feller in town who has a black car. Why, everybody knows where he is all the time...
...where one cold-water tap in the courtyard often served a whole block of houses. Her mother was a Labor Party worker and a social worker, ladling out soup from "St. George's Plateau (atop the steps of a Liverpool concert hall), and one of Bessie's earliest memories is the look on hungry faces when the soup ran out. When she went to her first job at 15, she remembers her mother calling after her: ". . . And don't come home until you join the union!" Bessie early dedicated herself to getting Liverpool's vermin-ridden...
...chemists, 12 lawyers, 17 schoolteachers, 7 college teachers, and more than 65 engineers. After hearing Harrington's story, a teacher in the Denver audience rose and commented that a man would be crazy to keep the hours he had. "Well," answered Harrington with a smile, "one of my earliest Dawn patrollers has become a fine psychiatrist who seems to feel that he wouldn't have been able to make it without my help. So if I'm crazy, it won't cost me anything; he promised to treat me free...
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