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N.A.M.'s second biggest news was much better publicized, much less puzzling, much less painful to those same ears. It came from the keynoter at N.A.M.'s usual $10 blue-plate windup banquet (grapefruit, mock turtle soup, roast turkey and cranberries, sherbet and petits fours-no butter), the man who makes policy for the world's biggest manufacturer: General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan...
...Bleeck's Artists & Writers Restaurant on Manhattan's 40th Street, one Henry George consumed at a sitting "six dozen Cotuit oysters, a two-quart tureen of mock turtle soup, a roast . . . weighing just under six pounds, four steak . . . slabs of cold Virginia ham, a dozen scones filled with whipped cream, three bottles of claret, 18 bottles of beer, and countless . . . rolls, butter, radishes, coffee, and sweet oddments." At Bleeck's too, Actress Helen Hayes found Playwright Nunnally Johnson "beating his third wife, whom he had married that afternoon, over the head with a silver-handled umbrella...
Brown University's heavy football team will invade Harvard tomorrow to do mock battle with Coach Henry Lamar's light and still green eleven. The scrimmage game will be played at Soldiers Field following the Navy V-12 Unit drill...
...machine. While his chief is on high with the plotters and the planners, Beedle is at his desk hacking through red tape, making mile-a-minute decisions. No one appreciates Smith more than Eisenhower. Late one afternoon the General entered Smith's busy office, gave him a mock salute and said: "Boss, may I go home...
...Misremembered as the overweening king who got his feet wet by planting his throne on the beach and ordering the tide not to come in. Actually canute, fed up with lickspittle flattery, was making a mock of his courtiers...