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...Lowenberg even advocate colored ice cubes to put in milk, and such fancies as "green mashed potato nests with ham" for a Christmas party. t| If a child does not feel like taking his breakfast protein in milk or eggs, it is all right to give him a peanut-butter sandwich before school-or chipped steak...
Billy put on a vaudeville show for the Lord and organized it on big-business lines. Apart from his habitual pitcher's stance, he had a repertory of skits which included 1) the unrepentant drunk; 2) the "red-nosed, buttermilk-eyed, beetle-browed, peanut-brained, stall-fed old saloonkeeper"; 3) the society woman who spends her time on yachts drinking wine, her "miserable hands red with blood." His masterpiece was probably his theological version of the popular poem, Slide, Kelly, Slide! In this, Sunday impersonated both God (The Great Umpire of the Universe) and poor Kelly himself...
While he was gone, Publisher Walter tired of the paper's losses, sold control to Lemaigre-Dubreuil, a peanut-oil manufacturer, who was encouraged by Premier Edgar Faure to take over the paper and support the government in the more autonomous rule it planned for Morocco. Mazzella returned from Paris and was named editor in chief. After Lemaigre-Dubreuil was murdered, Mazzella was again warned of an attack on his life, and he fled for the second time. He returned to Casablanca on Bastille Day, kept Maroc-Presse publishing while mobs rioted outside his plant for two days...
...discovered that he could write, and found a timely subject, the clash of the immigrant races amid settings of squalid realism. Haunting the "Bloody Sixth" Ward with notebook in hand, Harrigan transplanted New York lowlife to the stage to the immense delight of such real-life prototypes in the peanut gallery as One-Lung Pete, Slobbery Jack and Jake the Oyster. Together with his father-in-law David Braham, Harrigan also turned out over 200 songs, one of which. The Regular Army, O!, ribbed contemporary recruiting methods so hilariously that one irate Army officer complained that it had grievously curtailed...
...Lemaigre-Dubreuil was a leading member of France's financial aristocracy. He was also a devious politician who was pro-Fascist before the war, but later, as a top adviser of General Giraud, helped arrange for the Allied landings in North Africa. In hate-filled Morocco, where his peanut-oil business was based, Lemaigre-Dubreuil believed in a moder ate policy of "evolutionary autonomy" as a matter of hardheaded self-interest...