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...York Democrats were eating high on the hog. At Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, 1,300 diners paid $100 a plate for a meal of crab meat in avocado pear figaro, consommé de volaille madrilene, paupiette of Boston sole Marguery, filet mignon sauté with mushroom colbert, salad chiffonade Argenteuil, bombe vanilla sur socle with black cherries jubilee. Cocktails and two kinds of wine were thrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Affront | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Only a few months ago these fulsome phrases would have had a hollow ring. Last week, stuffed with terrapin soup, lobster newburg and filet mignon, Democrats nodded approvingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Politics | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

Arie di Arie di Opere (Ferruccio Tagliavini with the Sinfonica dell' E.I.A.R., Ugo Tansini conducting; Cetra, 6 sides). The new hero of the Met's Italian fans (TIME, Jan. 20) sings arias from six operas (Mignon, Tosca, Rigoletto, The Barber of Seville, Manon, Elisir d'Amore). The Italian tempi are perhaps a little languid for U.S. tastes, but Tagliavini's contralto-like pianissimi are wondrously lyrical. The imported Italian discs (which cost a whopping $3.25 each) are technically as good as most U.S. recordings. Performance: excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Feb. 10, 1947 | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...Married. Mignon Eberhart, 47, whodunit hatcher (The White Cockatoo, The Patient in Room 18); and John P. H. Perry, 64, vice president and director of the Turner Construction Co.; both for the second time; in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 4, 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...soon as I entered the villa, Victor, with the hospitality of a gastronomic grand seigneur, led me to the kitchen and, opening the tremendous refrigerators, bared his culinary treasures. . . . There were mountains of the most beautiful sirloins, filet mignon, and chateaubriant, all the color of a pretty woman's lips; various cuts of lamb . . . capons, chickens and all sorts of birds. . . . I quickly decided on a filet to be broiled on hickory wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Dreams across the Sea | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

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