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...Vandenberg for the privilege of trying to beat Truman; it won't be easy." To the list of Democratic vice-presidential prospects, "I should add the generally overlooked name of Governor Mon Wallgren of Washington State; indeed I should place his name high on my list." (In Olympia, Wash., Governor Wallgren promptly announced that he would accept...
...policy of catering to the uninitiate has, in the running of a commercial oddity, a Greek owned restaurant which actually serves Greek food, paid decided dividends for the Athens-Olympia and its owner, John Cocoris. Greek cooking needs to be explained. Yaourti, for example, a Balkan food staple, is made by boiling ordinary milk, then cooling it, and running it through a strainer. It comes out thick, and white, and very sour; and some people who are not from the Balkans have trouble stomaching it. Baklava, a doughy kind of pastry, makes its appearance in layered squares covered with syrup...
Vocational Training. In Olympia, Wash., an illiterate prisoner learned to read & write in the State Reformatory, got paroled, bounced back in jail to serve a term for forgery...
Advertisement. Near Olympia, Wash., the "Fun in the Sun" nudist camp expelled a female member who pub-crawled between sessions, livened things up by handing out photographs of herself in the nude...
...hate, modern art, gets both barrels: "You don't need a guide to explain Sargent's portrait of Marquand or Whistler's Mother. . . . But what do you need beginning with Manet's Olympia through Nude Descending the Staircase ... to the present-day Portrait of a Vacuum Cleaner having its Tonsils removed or Salad Bowl full of Left Ears? I feel that you need the Yale Bowl to be sick...