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...from ten days to two weeks every month in a suite at Manhattan's Warwick Hotel. He loves "21," the Stork Club, and the Sixth Avenue delicatessens. Though he has a delicate stomach, he forces it to accept "food that fights right back" and is constantly chewing soda-mint tablets in an attempt to placate its outraged state...
...Which would make her the nation's third woman governor. The first two: Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, governor of Wyoming (1925-27), now director of the U.S. Mint; Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, governor of Texas...
Down and Out has the engaging quality of utter candor. Most depression stories make dull reading today, but Orwell's has a mint freshness because his poverty, his sorry work mates, even the brain-deadening duties of his distasteful job were of vast interest to him. When the scene shifts to England, he is just as intently curious about flophouses, tramp argot and the personal histories of his down-and-out pals. There is the concern for the underdog and the compassion without sentimentality that soon became Orwell trademarks...
Second prize of $10,000 went to Miss Laura Rott of Naperville, Ill. for her mint surprise cookies; third prize of $4,000 to Mrs. R. W. Sprague of San Marino, Calif, for her Carrie's Creole chocolate cake...
...Mayor Fiorello La Guardia ordered the machines seized, personally banged up dozens of them with a sledge hammer while photographers recorded his prowess. He also called fellow Italian and longtime admirer Frank Costello a bum, a tinhorn gambler, and a punk. That was the end of Tru-Mint and of Costello's regard for the Little Flower...