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...serving take two dressed quail, simmer in one pint of chicken broth for 15 minutes; remove birds from broth and pluck meat from bones, returning the meat (finely chopped) to broth until cooked; thicken with one tablespoon of flour, season to taste and serve on toast points or with hominy grits. (The President prefers grits...
Only 518 students have pledged a pint as opposed to over 700 last spring, DeCaro said. On the basis of last year's statistics, he expects only two-thirds of these students to actually donate their blood...
...Army Medical Corps' pint-sized Major Sammy Lee, 35, twice (1948, 1952) Olympic high-diving champion, 1953 winner of the Sullivan Trophy as the U.S.'s outstanding amateur athlete, and a Korean war veteran, disclosed that two Southern California real-estate men recently gave him a rough time when he was shopping for a $12,000 house. His sin: California-born Dr. Lee is of Korean ancestry. Explained one real-estate man to him: "I'm sorry, Doctor, but I have to eat, and I'd lose my job for selling to a nonwhite...
...study with a pioneering genius in the field of atomics. The genius, Henry Maartens, is a wheezing hypochondriac who bubbles away on such topics as "fields of unembodied organization." Henry's personal universe "was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual...
...buying up of wine and distribute it in weekly rations of about a quart apiece to the country's "economically feeble," i.e., paupers, sick people over 60, everyone over 65. The Cabinet also recommended that the Defense Ministry increase by 50% the army's ration, now a pint of rough red pinard a day. In doing so, the government neatly canceled out former Premier Mendés-France's campaign to cut down on winebibbing among the soldiery. By Mendés-France's order, the serving of milk is obligatory at army messes: soldiers will...