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...Week, and among those who carved a future for himself was a young, gawky, until then unknown professor of mathematics. Given a battalion command, he led out 50 partly armed men to hold two miles of strategic railway line and canal in Dublin. First he seized Boland's flour mills and bakery as his headquarters. Then, as the British troops came nearer, he called his men together and addressed them: "You have but one life to live, and but one death to die. See that you do both like...
...flour and salt into basin, make a well in centre, break in eggs, stir gradually, mixing in flour from the sides, and add milk by degrees until a thick smooth batter is formed. Beat well for ten minutes, then add remainder of milk, cover, and let it stand for at least one hour in refrigerator. About half-an-hour before beef is due to be done take deep dish, put in a thin layer of dripping taken from meat tin, and while dish and dripping are getting thoroughly hot in oven beat up batter well again. Take dish and dripping...
...been one of the principal ports of call of coastwise British steamers. Chefoo exports famed Shantung lace and most of the hairnets worn by U. S. women. Last week one of these ships, the Hunan, idled along off Chefoo. In its hold lay a cargo of bean cakes, machinery, flour, and beer for the British flotilla preparing to assist in the blockade of Vladivostok. A handful of passengers-missionaries, German merchants, two or three mysterious White Russians-were lolling in the lounge; a couple of junior officers were playing ping-pong; below decks a horde of Chinese coolies bickered...
Massive, laconic, lantern-jawed Philip Winston Pillsbury, son of the late Director Charles S. of Minneapolis' Pillsbury Flour Mills Co., was known to Yalemates of the class of '24 as Teedyboom. At Yale he was a guard on the undefeated, untied '23 football team, All-American water-polo player, glee-club tenor. Later, smart, hardworking, deadpanned, he spent eight years in Pillsbury operations, became a master miller (able to make flour), became head of Pillsbury's Eastern grocery products division...
...years the No. 2 U. S. milling company (No. 1: Minneapolis' twice-as-big General Mills) has ground out Pillsbury's Best, other flour products, under the active management of Pillsburys. Recent resignation of Treasurer Alfred Fiske Pillsbury (70) left the family without an officer in the company (John Sargent Pillsbury is board chairman). Last week into the treasurership moved 230 Ibs. of fourth-generation Pillsbury. Phil Pillsbury quietly took over his father's old walnut chair and rolltop desk, settled into the Pillsbury executive groove...