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...final. He was not so absorbed in his own purposes as not to notice what was going on around him. And often enough it was the the funny side of things that got his attention, in beseiged Madrid for instance, where Franco broadcasted each day the Falangists' dinner menus to the hungry loyalists, and where he and his friends would play Jimmie Lunceford's "Organ Grinder's Swing" all night to drown out the noise of the bombing...
This popularity was not foreseen in 1934, when Everett House--at 53 Garden Street--was first opened to under-graduates. At first, the girls simply got their own dinner, but with the advent of dieticians, Planned Menus, and Balanced Diets, the college thought that breakfast should be provided as well. By the time Edmands was opened in 1937, also on Garden Street, a full-scale organizational program had been instituted...
...later years, menus were submitted to the college dietician for approval, but this practice proved impractical and was soon dropped without any noticeable increase in malnutrician, despite ample opportunity. In fact, the graduate residents who formerly had eaten prepared meals in the Quad dormitories have themselves started eating in their own houses...
...pinching ways, he keeps his fleet of Cadillacs and other expensive cars in a garage and rides around in a remodeled 1934 Ford. And with a family of three wives, 42 concubines, 33 children, 40 grandchildren and an estimated 3,400 servants, he carefully and personally plans the household menus for them all each day. A Nizam cannot be too careful...
...clubs or local restaurants. Undeniably this is a potent argument against the change as it applies to lunch and dinner, not to breakfast. Certainly most students who miss the morning meal do so in order to stay in bed rather than to find better company or menus. If the Council's report at least leads to adoption of voluntary breakfasts, it will prove worth the trouble of the Council and it's committee...