Word: madeiras
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...LUNCH that the important are most easily seen. In the bare old dining room on the fourth floor of the Metropolitan Club, with its memories of mustaches and Madeira wine and terrapin Maryland, the unleisurely men of today take only a few minutes off to talk personalities over a hurried meal of Ry-Krisp and iceberg lettuce. There are newsworthy faces at every table. A man speeds up the conversation with his lunch eon partner to get a chance to exchange a word with someone more important who's just shoving back his chair...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Gianni Schicchi, with Baccaloni, Peters, Madeira; and Salome, with Welitch, Svanholm...
...himself in land and fell in debt for a while. But he skillfully rotated his crops at Mt. Vernon, grew wheat when others were growing tobacco, and kept on prospering. He was able to ride in a coach & six and to lay down in his cellar pipes of fine Madeira and the "best Lisbon wine...
...gourmets to name their favorite after-theater supper dishes. Broadway Producer Gilbert Miller said he favored hot crabmeat in cream. Artist Salvador Dali liked tripe a la mode de Caen. Author Michael (The Green Hat) Arlen fancied hot Virginia ham topped with poached fresh peaches, the whole bathed in Madeira sauce...
Winston Churchill, on vacation at Funchal on the island of Madeira, received the news of the election date by telephone from London, promptly flew home. Landing at Southampton, Churchill said: "I heard there was going to be a general election, so I thought I had better come back in case I was wanted. I think it's high time we had a new Parliament." The old Tory also praised Attlee for giving six weeks' riotice of the election. Said Churchill: "It's just what I did the last time. I hope it will be an equally good...