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Though the signs outside identified it as a hotel, the Cavendish was no place for the unsuspecting tourist. Most strangers who ventured into the dim, cluttered lobby at 82 Jermyn Street were sternly told to try elsewhere. Others, if they were lucky enough to remind the proprietress of some long-vanished Victorian buck or Bostonian pooh-bah, would be clasped to her shapely bosom and regaled with surrealistic reminiscences about old Lord Droopy Drawers and Lady You-Know-'Oo, or "the time we went to Ireland on roller skates...
...ranks, forced steel companies that had raised prices to surrender. During a recent Block visit to the White House, the President asked him whether he thought U.S. Steel was "too big." After all, said Kennedy, U.S. Steel "set prices for the entire industry." Said Block: "I would remind you, sir, that quite recently a company 10% of the size of U.S. Steel set prices for the entire industry...
...year locusts any good to anybody? Dr. Leland Howard, a pioneer entomologist, decided in 1885 that they might be good to eat. His report: when broiled they are flabby-nothing but skin; most palatable method is to fry them in batter, when they remind one of shrimps...
...Supreme Soviet-Russia's rubber-stamp Parliament, which was "chosen" last month by 99.47% of all adult Russians who voted for the 1,443 candidates of the Communist Party's choice. Then, in hardly more time than it took one of Nikita's pals to remind delegates of his "thoughtful and many-sided works," Khrushchev was unanimously re-elected to his second four-year term as Chairman of the Council of Ministers...
...Angeles, Bill's parents gave him his first "sitdown" dinner and dance (live music) for his tenth birthday. Tuxedoed boys escorted dates who wore corsages. One boy showered too much attention on another's date. "I had to talk with him and remind him he brought his own little date," explained Bill's mother...