Word: omelete
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Betty (The Egg and I) MacDonald, whose airy literary omelet is the nation's favorite dish, got a deep bow from her adopted state of Washington. The governor, the mayor and the president of the state Farmers' Association were among the benders-from-the-waist at eating and oratorical festivities in Seattle. Authoress MacDonald watched what she ate; after five years of staggering headaches she had discovered the trouble: she was allergic to eggs...
...Ernst's prizewinner was an expert nightmare (see cut). Runners-up: Belgian Paul Delvaux, who sent a study of three disarmingly naked, disarmingly beautiful women in a ruined, neo-classical landscape; Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, for an ulcerous omelet of flesh, fish, snakes and rodents; Salvador Dali, whose desert caravan of spider-legged elephants "carrying on their backs erotic fountains, obelisks, churches and escorials" (see cut) for once was pretty comprehensible...
...weeks the New York Herald Tribune sport page has dished up a weekly news omelet for G.I. Joe. Jampacked into a double column box, to be clipped and mailed overseas, were sport highlights, reported in a motley cablese. G.I.s liked it.'Last week Sports Editor Stanley ("Old Coach") Woodward wrote his farewell Weekly Overseas Sports Letter, thus summarized football's finals...
...Electric Omelet. In Manhattan, Ashley Jackson started home with half a case of eggs, had a few drinks, saw an electric fan, couldn't resist, got 20 days...
Readers of Hearst's American Weekly (circ. 8,135,982) whose Sunday breakfast is a pumped-up omelet of cornfield murders, betrayed maidens, prehistoric monsters and the evils of vivisection, are going to get more herbs with their eggs. A new publisher is in the kitchen. He is 63-year-old Walter Howey, onetime holy terror of Chicago journalism, and the real-life model of Front Page's brash, blustery managing editor...