Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a recent interview-luncheon for a story on Etiquette Expert Amy Vanderbilt (TIME, July 5), Vanderbilt and Mehrtens found themselves at an impasse: both insisted on paying for the meal. Says Ruth: "I won that point of etiquette. I pointed out that after all she was my guest...
...first time since losing his appendix and rebellious gall bladder (TIME, June 28), resilient Harry Truman left his bed for the length of a lunch in a Kansas City hospital, drew himself up to a table and with gusto devoured a square meal. Near by lay a get-well-quick wire from Washington, signed by two White House visitors, old British friends of Truman's: Winston and Anthony. While his obituaries were being filed away for another day, Truman was finding out that even some of his old enemies seemed happy about his recovery: the Chicago Tribune, which barked...
...right and wrong ways to do things. Sample subjects: Kissing in Public ("A man must always remove his hat . . ."); Talking to Strangers ("Sometimes the most charming people are the most unscrupulous . . ."); Sitting Down ("It's wise to look at the piece of furniture first . . ."); Breakfast ("The one meal at which it is perfectly good manners to read the paper...
Often while his mother was cooking a meal, Sam sat beside the old Home Comfort stove and discussed his future with her. For a while he thought of going to college on a football scholarship. In the end, he chose golf...
Accepting, Peck eats a hearty meal in a restaurant and then beckons the proprietor. "I'm awfully sorry," he murmurs casually, "but I don't have anything smaller." It works. It works again with an expensive tailor and again at a fashionable club. Reporters rush to interview the "vest-pocket millionaire." Heiresses of ancient lineage come to squeal like pigs in clover and an old friend shows up with a "sure thing"-a gold mine guaranteed to make millions later for thousands now. It all moves along amusingly-until the hero discovers that he has lost his million...