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...down, down he went in the polls. Hoarsely and hopefully he fought on. On the very day he fell the lowest in the polls, when the. shrewdest possible politicking seemed necessary just to save him from landslide defeat, he stood in Detroit, after hecklers had thrown a melon and a wastebasket at him, and spoke not for votes, but made a plea to American mothers to "teach our children to believe in America...
...interview on behalf of the New York Times, put a $1,000 price on the privilege, then invited Saroyan to tea on a nonbusiness basis. After long pondering over what tribute whimsey should pay wit, Saroyan finally loaded himself down with $20 worth of greengrocer specialties, including hothouse melon, asparagus, mushrooms. Roared Vegetarian Shaw "Everybody seems to think I'm starving...
...luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton for friends she feared might be too busy for such things for the rest of 1943. She explained: "They're all war workers." Among them: diamond-studded Mrs. Byron Foy, Mrs. Muriel Vanderbilt Church Phelps, Consuelo Vanderbilt Smith Davis Warburton. Eaten: supreme of melon in port wine, boned squab with white grapes new peas in butter, hearts of endive and beet roots and fine herbs, floating heart ice cream with figs, petit fours, demitasse. It was meatless Tuesday...
McKellar, premier Senate spoilsman, had once envisioned TVA as a wonderful new Tennessee source of political jobs- something juicier than marshalcies and postmasterships. Lilienthal refused to cut the melon. McKellar bided his time...
Jasper is a little Negro boy who can't stay away from the forbidden land of his mammy's melon patch. Hearing of a country where melons are free, he goes there with his scarecrow informer. But the melons aren't free, after all, and after he eats one of them, the other melons run him straight back to his mammy. Moral: don't talk to scarecrows...