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...Charles-Hubert at a bargain counter where "their hands clasped over a pair of socks at a reduced price," is a kind of Clausewitz of the cash register. Her axiom: wars are long and rations get short. The Poissonards stock the Bon Beurre fore and aft. Tins of ham as big as ox livers prop up the conjugal bed. Sausages hang thick as stalactites from the ceiling. On the floors stand wheels of Gruyere and slabs of Cantal cheeses, "the mighty pillars of this Temple of Foresight." Rationing is declared, and Julie beholds a vision come true, all the neighbors...
...Queen about the ballroom in a lively foxtrot, some of his countrymen started cutting in on the faintly startled Elizabeth. Protocol soon died an informal death. When the Queen's customary departure hour of midnight came, she stayed on, danced with all cutters-in, wound up having ham and eggs at 3 a.m. London's press next day upbraided Aldrich for his news blackout and the ballroom manners of the crude Americans (observed by an Evening Standard spy). But apparently the Queen had seldom had such a ball. Said one guest: "I've never known the royal...
...Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory, Tony started fast in one more try. His big serve skidding and hopping, his net game vastly improved and his temper in check, he breezed to the finals of the U.S.L.T.A. indoor singles championships. In the last round his Davis Cup teammate, Ham Richardson, 21, made him work for the title. But Tony, 24, was equal to the job. After losing the long first set, 11-13, Tony unwound, ran out the match...
After years of noisy sparring, feuding Cartoonists Ham (Joe Palooka) Fisher and Al (Li'l Abner) Capp knocked each other out of the ring last week. In New York Cartoonist Fisher was suspended from the 325-member National Cartoonists Society "for conduct unbecoming a member." The society's Ethics Committee accused Fisher of using "altered, tampered-with and . . . not a true reproduction" of Capp's cartoons in an effort to prove Capp slipped pornography into his drawings. Meanwhile, in Boston, Al Capp withdrew as a stockholder in the Massachusetts Bay Telecasters. Capp, who was confronted with...
Almost Real. Meticulously, Novelist Basso examines the town's tribal customs, ancestor worship and social strata on the other side of the railroad tracks. New Orleans-born "Ham" Basso has done a thorough job of reconstruction. His town is like one of those skillfully done scale models seen in Christmas shop windows, of which people exclaim: "My, it almost looks real!" The trouble is that nothing very interesting or moving happens in the town. There is neither humor nor tragedy in Pompey's rather empty Head-not even a good hangover...