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...British correspondents seeking crumbs of information, and satisfying their thirst. Their uniforms comprise as strange a collection as the officers'. About the only women at Shepheard's are WAASies (Woman's Auxiliary Army Service). Trim uniformed and exceptionally attractive, they drink only lemonade and feed potato chips to the little birds which romp around the floor...
...users hot & bothered months ago, was no longer a worry last week. Reason: cotton-and paper-bag production had zoomed fast enough to plug the entire gap. Cotton bags are just as good as burlap; the only catch is that they cost 10-25% more (17? for a cotton potato bag v. 15? for burlap...
...spry, horse-loving Baron Portsea was born 82 years ago on the little island of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands. All the members of his family live there now, with 50,000 other British subjects, under Nazi overlords. They have slim pickings: no salt, jam, sweets. The potato crop goes largely to France. Coffee is made from parsnips...
...colleges last week jiggled a hot potato: Could they welcome Japanese students, even though loyal to the U.S., to their campuses? The man who passed them this hot potato was University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul. Sympathizing with his 300 Nisei (American-born Japanese) students, whom he had to evacuate, Dr. Sproul asked 32 inland colleges (all west of the Mississippi) to admit them. The University of Washington followed suit, but extended its request to universities east of the Mississippi...
Basin Street was conceived as a lampoon of the hot-potato pomposities com mon to the presentation of formal music...