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They talked on Tuesday aboard the presidential yacht after lunch (sea food, soup, roast beef, braised celery, broccoli, beans, chicory salad, cheese & crackers, baked Alaskas, chocolates and assorted nuts). They talked again on Wednesday. At the White House, the Prime Minister passed, twinkling, through the gauntlet of correspondents. In his wake strode towering Ambassador Franks, shortening his ambassadorial step so as not to tread on the ministerial heels. On one occasion Mr. Attlee paused to pose, lighting his pipe. Some photographers missed the action and pleaded with him to light his pipe again. Said the Prime Minister...
...himself, in a breech clout and wooden earrings, stood before Mereiles, addressed him as "Imuman Uazassé" (Patient Father). Gravely, his men handed out gifts of bows & arrows, received in return knives, axes, aluminum pots. A rousing sport carnival followed. Then Apoena gave a banquet during which everybody ate roast deer and grasshoppers from great earthen jars...
...Novelist Forester push aside the hot roast beef of history, as he served it in the Hornblower series, to take up a cold contemporary potato like Randall? Says Forester: to convey the impact of fate on a man "who has lived through the wars and the depressions." In two projected novels, Randall is due for a flyer in high finance and a dive into the submarine campaigns of World...
...Harvard Administration, like all August Bodies, never does anything without a reason. With that in mind, the question now is, why did the Administration place three pellets of birdshot in the Adams House roast beef at lunch on Sunday...
Perhaps the birdshot was placed in the roast beef at the suggestion of officials of the H.A.A., in order to get more men to follow the football team for away-from-home games. Since the Princeton game was the last away game of the 1950 season, however, most of the effectiveness of such an action would be lost. And the H.A.A. has never gone in much for wasted effort...