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...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, 2,000 men & women in evening dress ate their way through Fumet of Gumbo Chervil, Native Guinea Hen, Bombe Glacé Britannia, and sat back to hear the Great Debater. Winston Churchill had made a Fulton (Mo.) profession of his democratic faith. Joseph Stalin had written the answer that joined the issue between two social philosophies more directly and authoritatively than it had ever been joined before...
...GUMBO YA-YA-Lyle Saxon, Edward Dreyer, Roberf Tallant - Houghton Mifflin...
...Gumbo Ya-Ya (which is Cajun for "Everybody talks at once") contains instructive chapters on crapshooting, how to play the lottery, the decaying Creoles, the decaying plantations, slaves and slave tortures, buried treasure, the New Orleans slums, the Mississippi River front, its roustabouts and their jargon, and New Orleans cemeteries to which, during rainy spells, coffins sometimes have to be brought in boats and forced under the muddy water with poles...
Sink or Swim. In the viscous gumbo, fighting was reduced to patrol actions. Off Leyte's western shore, Japanese reinforcement convoys appeared and were attacked by fighter bombers from Sverdrup's new strips. Some were burned and some were sunk. Thousands of Japanese troops on their way to reinforce the stubborn, holdout garrison at Ormoc died. How many thousands, no man knew, although the communiqués offered guesstimates in bold round numbers...
...Ottawa's Chateau Laurier, 900 of them would pay $2.00 to eat gumbo creole and tenderloin steak, toast Mr. King in water (since the war, King has felt that liquor is out of place). Emil Ludwig, biographer of Bismarck, Napoleon and Franklin Roosevelt, would also publish a 62-page study of Mr. King's career. It described him as Mr. King hoped history would remember him-the great conciliator of Canada's contrary elements...