Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge Licensing Board has announced that it will not renew pinball machine licenses after Jan. 1. an internal revenue Bureau decision imposing a special tax on such machines was responsible for the decision. Mrs. Blanche Ryan, secretary to the Board, said yesterday...
...lost the Kentucky Derby by a nose, the Preakness by four lengths, but Sword Dancer, the little chestnut three-year-old owned by Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane, came surging back to twice beat the five-year-old Round Table, racing's biggest money winner, leads the nation's thoroughbreds in earnings this season with $537,004, last week was named horse of the year by the railbird's Bible, the Morning Telegraph...
...Mrs. Judah Holstein, 32, of Los Angeles, last week faced the harrowing test that comes to almost every young working wife: her first big dinner party. A top Hollywood secretary (to Producer Stanley Kramer), Selma Holstein had to grapple with phones, mountains of paper, and hubbubing actors and directors all day, rush off at 6 p.m. to prepare a dinner for 14. To complicate matters, she had to go through her paces at her sister's house because her own apartment has no dining room, only a small kitchenette...
...what had happened. Except for the cooking water and seasoning, almost every bite of the appetizing meal she placed before her guests had been washed, cut, peeled, shelled, precooked, mixed and apportioned by "factory maids" long before it reached her hands. After cocktails and hors d'oeuvres (frozen), Mrs. Holstein began her meal with shrimp (frozen) in cocktail sauce (prepared), a green salad (fresh) with Swiss dressing (from a bottle...
Coffee (instant) and a white cake (made from ready-mix) and ice cream topped off the meal. Mrs, Holstein's harvest from husband and guests: a burst of praise (spontaneous) for her "home-cooked" meal. Such jiffy cooking would have made Grandma shudder, but today it brings smiles of delight to millions of U.S. housewives. The remarkable rise of "conven-ience" or processed foods-heralded by the slogans "instant," "ready to cook" and "heat and serve"-has set off a revolution in U.S. eating habits, brought a bit of magic into the U.S. kitchen. It has freed the housewife...