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...midday rush begins. "Four plaice! . . . Two turbot! ... I got six steaks! . . . Four plaice, please, ducks! . . . Three cutlets, Hans! . . . Two omelettes! . . . Four cod, lover boy! Ye canna be a slow coach here!" Waitresses scream, cooks curse, knives flash, fat crackles, urns squeal, sweat spews out of every pore and food leaps furiously from pot to plate as though it were alive. Faster the pace, wilder the tumult. Like a runaway reactor, like a Beethoven rising to full frenzy the great kitchen gathers itself and surges, thunders, mindlessly explodes in a tremendous climax of comestibles...
...caught dead in plastic. And George is as admiring of his patrons as they are of him. "Hollywood glamour girls," he says, "are chicquer than these New York society women. They know what to wear and what to do for themselves. Like Marilyn, for instance, she knows every pore in her face. And what wonderful hair she has, what body...
Listening with every pore open to the gibes and chaffer of the two sophisticates is a green, young editorial hand, David Polonsky (obviously Angoff), a breathless and bewildered Boswell already a trifle disillusioned in his Johnson. Polonsky's trouble seems to be that he has come to the American World seeking a 20th century messiah and found only a man with a man's common frailties. Nonetheless, Mencken, as the villainous Brandt, commandeers The Bitter Spring and breathes into it the only life it has. While much of Brandt's talk is unfit for print, it alone...
...times, the talks eased away from the deeper subject matter to such topics as the effect of drugs on the human consciousness, and the effects of Parisian restaurants on the palate. When his conferences with Father Murray were finished. Auchincloss returned to his Manhattan apartment to pore over volumes of research and finally to write. As is his practice, he wrote at home on his electric Olivetti, stopping from time to time to make himself some hot soup...
...while Henry Cabot Lodge was a gain to the Republicans. Johnson shed all of his pre-convention pretense of being a Westerner, not a Southerner, campaigned as "the grandson of a Confederate soldier" (running, he often added, with a man who. despite his fortune, is "the grandson of a pore Irish immigrant...