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...three-hour conference and a roast-beef lunch with his old chief, General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur, 74, who looked older and leaner, said: "The President and myself are old friends and have been associated together for many years. He asked me down not only to resume the old friendship but to discuss . . . the general strategic and military situation in various areas of the world, the Far East situation and things of that nature. He wished to get my point of view. I had a delightful luncheon and a pleasant talk." ¶ Approved the $930,343,000 development project...
...grown a blister) and took cars to a hunting lodge named the Cardinal Club. But the Justice and 16 hardy souls made the last six miles on foot. They covered 22 long miles before they sat down before the club's roaring fireplace for a dinner of roast ham and baked beans...
...weeks Sergeev traveled the length of Greece from Salonika to Crete, glad-handed everyone, did everything but kiss babies. He invited 500 prominent Greeks to the embassy for a Russian film premiere, feasted another 500 on roast suckling pig and caviar washed down with champagne and vodka...
...other people's kitchens, writing about everyone from a sausage stuffer to the late Mrs. Henry Ford (in an article on her "Model T cookies"). Her office at the Trib, next door to the testing kitchen, is stuffed with all kinds of sample foods from German wild boar roast, smoked shrimp paste and bite-size saltless matzoth to dehydrated soups and lobster royal ("cooked with a wiggle in its tail...
...club when the system first began is easy to understand. The Porcellian club, legend has it, began when a man in Hollis Hall found a suckling pig in his room. He hid the animal in a window seat until evening and then invited a few friends in to roast the pig. The evening was so pleasant that they determined to meet alternate Friday evenings for fellowship and supper. They first called themselves "The Argonauts," but when roast pig turned up month after month on the menu, the group came to be known as the "Pig Club." From 1879, with...