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...Inspiring. At noon he and Clint Anderson sat down with Production Marketing Administration agents and Farmers' Union bosses for a well-advertised starvation lunch: a cup of potato soup, one piece of bread (no butter), one cup of coffee (no cream or sugar). Butch lighted a cigar and looked slyly at the hungry diners from the northwest plains. Then waiters trooped in with salmon steak, potatoes, string beans, plenty of bread & butter...
...live with bits of this and that, to manage eggs from wrongly fed and badly housed chickens, to scrape and tan animal furs for family use, to wash and spin wool, with homemade soap and homemade spinning wheel, to finish the winter evenings by the light of a potato-lamp (with its improvised wick set in melted fat in a hollowed-out potato!). The effort is sure to leave him with the greatest indifference toward the "literature of despair...
...Time after time I have had it hammered into my head by you that I will have to stand trial myself in this case. You have told me that the hot potato was being passed right into...
...only a symbol: the prosecution was after the system and the man it held responsible for the system-Kilian. A contempt of court charge against Kilian (TIME, Feb. 18) was already prepared. Others were reported to be in the making, one involving conspiracy. The imperious colonel had the hot potato, and had need of a miracle...
...evening over, jovial, gargantuan (225-lb.) Tenor Melchior and his pocket-sized (110-lb.) wife, Maria ("Kleinchen") took 85 guests to the Swedish Three Crowns restaurant, drank aquavit (Scandinavian 88-proof potato liquor) and beer chasers. Said he: "Now I can take a deep breath and start life again...