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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain liked what it heard. Birmingham's packed-house response to the first of the Philadelphia's 28 British concerts was as good a prescription for ailing Conductor Ormandy as the half-pound of U.S. beef the doctor had ordered him to eat before each performance...
Truman and his good friend Dutra (who is a head shorter) also got together at a more sensible hour of the day to eat a few slices from a seven-tier cake prepared in honor of Dutra's 64th birthday (see cut). When they got down to more serious talk, the two Presidents agreed to begin negotiating a treaty to stimulate foreign private investment and U.S. technical assistance for Brazil. In flowery Portuguese, Dutra assured a joint session of Congress of Brazil's enduring friendship. When the Presidents parted, Eurico Dutra handed out his bread & butter gifts...
...Christians just ain't. It says in the Bible to love thy brethren but people don't practice what the Bible preaches ... I been studying the Koran myself. That's the Islam Bible, you know. Once I get converted, I can't drink, or eat pork...
...pleasantness or unpleasantness of an odor is mostly a matter of psychological conditioning. McCord and Witheridge point out that workers in horribly smelly places (such as glue factories) eat hearty meals while surrounded by putrefying carrion, but visitors in such surroundings get sick at the thought of eating anything. People whose minds are fully occupied are often unconscious of odors. "It may be doubted," observe McCord and Witheridge, "that the handful of men and women on Noah's Ark, with their own existence threatened, complained of animal odors about the place." But less preoccupied people than the Noah family...
...jumped to sign up Al Capp's Li'l Abner. Editor Harry Guy Bartholomew, whose knowing tabloid touch had built the London Daily Mirror (circ. 4,400,000) into the world's biggest daily, thought that his even bigger weekend Pictorial audience (4,800,000) would eat up Capp's super-edible Shmoos as hungrily as U.S. readers had done...