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...playing Rugby. He looks and moves like a grizzly bear, is an authority on army obscenity, can boom out many a bawdy, masculine song to his own guitar accompaniment. In Majorca he rises early, scorns the Spaniards' late meal hours, tucks away hearty platters of nononsense, British-type roast lamb, cabbage and potatoes...
...successive days with leaders of the House and of the Senate, both Democrats and Republicans. For the Representatives there was quail hash (from birds sent to Ike by Georgians who were disturbed because he bagged only two on his February hunting holiday there) and for the Senators there was roast pheasant. For both there was a precisely detailed review of the U.S. position in the world by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and a restatement of aim by the President. Said he: "God knows, nobody in the world wants peace more than I do or would do more...
...many a thoughtful neurosurgeon, some drastic brain operations now in vogue are "like burning down the house to roast the pig." For two of the operations substitute methods are being suggested in hopes that the same amount of good can be done with less incidental harm...
...Dahlia* of a cherished weekly, 3) a blighter who writes poetry designed to produce persp. on any decent citizen's brow. The solutions developed in Jeeves's think-tank may seem a little watery to the highbrow-critic chaps. But looking at the rosier side of the roast beef, Wodehouse is still Wodehouse, and a jolly good thing, too, what...
...rations for the Army and stepped up its gross from $9,000,000 to $43 million in 1944. But the biggest jump came with peace, when the Swansons noted both the boom in home freezers and the shortage of domestic servants, brought out beef, chicken and turkey pies, new roast beef and fried chicken dinners, all ready for the oven. Their first frozen TV Dinner (sliced turkey on cornbread, buttered peas, sweet potatoes, gravy) now sells at the rate of 13 million a year. Total production: well over 10 million packages a month, from the production lines of plants...