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Consuming Ambition. In Boston, Dancer Carolina Hall, 22, 140 lbs., sat down to a $12 restaurant breakfast of 1) 20 rolls, 2) 24 pats of butter, 3) one pint of cider, 4) a triple chef's salad, 5)3 four-egg cheese omelette, 6) a double order of French fries, 7) four pieces of toast, 8) a double portion of strawberry shortcake, 9) one slice of chocolate layer cake, 10) one piece of cheesecake, 11) one pear tart, 12) one cheese sandwich, 13) one egg salad sandwich, 14) two portions of mocha nut cake, 15) a dessert of cottage...
...research for each story, conversation imperceptibly tends toward discussion of high issues. By Saturday lunch, everybody is busy writing the stories; conversation then tends to be scattered with suggestions for pithy statements. By Sunday lunch, the conversation centers round the impossibility of fitting several gallons of material into a pint pot. By Monday the atmosphere is much more cheerful. On Thursday everyone is saying that last week's magazine was an exceptionally good one after all-especially in other people's sections...
This writer, a veteran of the simple blood-letting days, went to give up this year's pint the other day and found a medium sized line of people by some tables at the door, reminiscent of registration. Several people in the line were busy showing that they were just all guts by pretentiously rolling up their sleeves while volunteer "grey ladies" behind the tables filled out their forms. A motherly looking grey lady shepherded men from the tables to a line of chairs from which she fed them into the temperature and pulse-taking department...
...said disgustedly after about five minutes in which I had bled only a tenth of a pint. "I better try another vein if that's all right with you." I assured her it was all right. The nurse brought around a brand new jar, stabbed for the bigger vein and this time I bled. Despite her weariness, the nurse gamely kept conversation going while I opened and closed my hand around the round object, and the blood drained out. "Few rejects today," she said. "One, though, almost fainted on the bed before I took his blood. Decided I better...
...Stay flat," she ordered when she had her pint and took the needle out. "Now you can sit up," she said after about ten seconds. "All right," she said after another ten seconds, "you can get off now. Go to the canteen and have something to eat and drink. Don't run yet. Drink plenty tonight. Eat a full meal. Thank you very much...