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...Maida Heatter's New Book of Great Desserts (Knopf; $17.50) has two equally good apple tarts: one, with an apricot glaze, might belong on the Thanksgiving or Christmas table. The book's most celebrated item will undoubtedly be her French chocolate loaf cake, the result of "a lifelong search" for the recipe for a particular gateau sold at a French pastry shop in New York City...
...Heatter's re-creation of this chocoholic's dream may not be "the ultimate chocolate cake," as claimed by her publisher, but the moist, dense, candy-like confection has one virtue: it is too rich to be addictive. The same could be said of Pearl's Southampton fruit cake, in which eleven varieties of fruit must be allowed to marinate for at least a week in cognac and Grand Marnier...
...there is good news for the calorie-conscious. For them, Heatter proposes a fruit survival cake and a whole-wheat yogurt date-nut gingerbread from Central Europe. One minor coup is the secret of the nut crescents for which the Austrian embassy in Washington, D.C., is renowned. Other fairly easy to make entries include Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' chocolate cookies, chocolate pepper pretzels, Joe froggers cookies (named for the inhabitants of a Marblehead, Mass., frog pond) and an inviting array of souffles and mousses, notably a sour lime mousse with strawberries. Frozen desserts vary from San Francisco ice-cream...
Died. Gabriel Heatter, 81, radio commentator whose famous opener, "Ah, there's good news tonight," brightened the dark days of World War II; of pneumonia; in Miami Beach. After getting his first journalistic experience on the old New York American, Heatter switched to the young field of radio news in the early '30s. He won national attention in 1936 with 53 minutes of dramatic, adlibbed commentary from outside the death house the night Kidnaper Bruno Hauptmann was executed. For the next quarter-century, Heatter's mellifluous baritone carried good news and bad to huge network audiences...
...gaunt, with a calm, reasoned tone to his speech, Swing was among the first of the true commentators, not merely reporting the news but attempting to find a meaning in each day's events. His competition in the 1940s was formidable-H. V. Kaltenborn, Edward R. Murrow, Gabriel Heatter-yet Swing commanded at least as large a following and salary (more than $150,000 in 1942), first on the Mutual Broadcasting Network and subsequently on the now defunct Blue Network...