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...loosely hung curtain, "is a healthy, blowsy heifer, with an expression of self-restraint and self-satisfaction which is not very attractive." The man grabbing pies off the tray looks too much like the bride to be the bridegroom. So does the one pouring beer into three-pint mugs. They are probably her brothers. Her father, nowhere to be seen, must be dead. The bride's mother, her face hidden, sits on her right. But the bridegroom's face could not be hidden: Bruegel wouldn't play a trick like that, argues Major Highet...
...Recipe:1) steamed- 1 quart of yellow corn meal, i quart of milk, 6 eggs, 1 pound of chopped suet, % pint of molasses, a little cinnamon (serves ten); 2) baked- 2 quarts of milk, 3 gills of corn meal, 1 pint of molasses, % pound of suet, 2 tablespoonfuls of ginger...
Civilian demand is up because during the war doctors got used to giving blood as a post-surgery routine. But there were still few peacetime plasma plans, and no great rush to make any, partly because the Army has released 1,000,000 pints of blood to the Red Cross for civilian use. In New York City 150 hospitals and the Medical Society have formed an exchange which is a variation of prewar blood banking: anyone needing blood must pay $15 a pint or get two friends to give a pint each to the pool...
After winning exactly 50 out of 100 races, and $252,996, Old Bones pulled up lame. By now a sentimental trouper, forlorn and desolate at being exiled to Owner Willis Sharpe Kilmer's Binghamton, N.Y. farm, he went off his feed. Then he got a new interest: a pint-sized pony pal named Peanuts II, who could walk under Old Bones' belly. When Peanuts died last year, Exterminator again stopped eating, until his pal's body was left in his stall overnight; they found him kneeling with his head on Peanuts' cold flank...
...began skidding on the smooth turf, shook off his shoes and blasted Argentina's No. 2 player, Heraldo Weiss off the court. There's a coming Davis Cupper, said wise old tongues. Next day, Lieut. Gardnar Mulloy was an upset victim, succumbing to Major Frank Guernsey, a pint-size fighter pilot who prefers golf to tennis...