Word: pied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Loreto Santarelli, 57, soft-tongued, Italian-born maître d'hôtel of London's big, swank Savoy since 1926, inventor of Britain's war-famed Woolton Pie (crusted vegetable stew with bacon rinds), confident to gourmets, statesmen, royalty; of a heart attack; in London. Released after brief internment at the beginning of the war, British Subject Santarelli guided his guests politely among steel girders to the Savoy's emergency bomb-cellar dining rooms during the blitz...
Share the Pie. Last week WPB unreservedly promised: the West will get an ample share of the overall cutbacks in war production after V-E day. In the first year after Germany quits, and if Japan is still fighting, the rising scale of cutbacks for the U.S. will average 32% (maximum: 40%). For the West Coast, the average will be "something more" than 25%. The lower percentage is due to the hard fact that the bulk of the weapons still needed to fight Japan (i.e., B-29 and B-32 bombers) are being made in the West. Furthermore...
Workers at Marinship shipyard (Sausalito, Calif.) wanted to name one of their tankers after Mt. Tamalpais (pronounced tam-el-pie'-iss), in whose shadow they work. The Navy said no. Reason: Navy regulations say that oilers shall be named after rivers, not mountains. The workers then took a leaf out of the Navy notebook. They persuaded the Marin County Board of Supervisors to christen an unnamed creek Tamalpais. Last week the Navy stiffly notified the yard that it was all right to name their oiler S.S. Tamalpais -after the stream...
Theme Song. On the Big Day, people came by foot, by train and car, by mule-drawn wagon. They sat on the courthouse lawn, opening their picnic baskets of fried chicken and cherry pie, gaping at the broadcasting equipment, listening to the seven bands parading in courthouse square and shrewdly eyeing the big-city reporters. (The newsmen lounged in a vacant building where whiskey was free...
Expertly sandwiched between the pratfalls and the broad pie-throwing burlesque of suburban manners lies a richer comedy idea-the alchemy by which a phoney hero is transmuted from the base metal of conventional heroics to the pure gold of true heroism...