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...Grillon, Mexico City's ultra-posh nightclub, 300 poets and writers of every political stripe gathered to meet Manuel Avila Camacho over absinthe cocktails, lobster a la Newburg and a succulent melee of chicken, turkey and duck washed down with rare wines. Mexico's querulous intellectuals were being reconciled; the bile of the inkpot was being washed away in the blood of the vine. At the same time they were making the acquaintance, firsthand, of the President who, succeeding to the far-Left regime of Lazaro Cardenas, had led Mexico back to the middle of the road...
...minute quick-freeze plant and cannery, a fleet of power-driven fishing boats, is only 60 miles' shipping distance from Palm Beach. General Foods will start operations with 300 native workers in the plant, 1,000 more as supply fishermen. Main catch will be rock lobster (crawfish); later the company will go after pompano, grouper, snapper, other tasty tropical fish. If all goes well, the plant may be expanded, more natives put to work...
...tour was not of their choosing. They went at the Treasury Department's request, to help the sale of war bonds. They went cheerfully, did their duty like good soldiers. They had fun, too. The entertainment was lavish. The tables creaked with steak and chicken and lobster and capon. They had big leisurely breakfasts in their hotel rooms. Smart debs and sleek models took them to nightclubs. They rode in open cars, so the people could see them better...
Said WPB: no more asparagus tongs, beer mugs, bird cages, butter knives, cash registers, cigaret lighters, cocktail shakers, compacts, corn poppers; no more flagpoles, hair curlers, knitting needles, lobster forks, pie plates; no more roller skates, spittoons, toolboxes, wastebaskets or weatherstripping; no more nothing. Only concession to buying-as-usual: if gold or silver could do in place of other metals, WPB said go ahead...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, for whom innumerable children have been named, now has a small sea animal namesake: an amphipod crustacean, related to the shrimp, lobster and crab, which inhabits Magdalena Bay on the coast of Lower California, and which was discovered there by a Smithsonian scientist in 1938. The name is much longer than the quarter-inch crustacean itself: Neomeganphopus roosevelti...