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...dogs, the soldier's choice of meat. Horrors! Soldiers prefer, first of all, steaks of any kind, secondly, roast beef or pork. "Coffee weak, prefers cocoa to coffee." I can hardly stand that one. Army coffee, if you can call it that, is never weak, but is so strong it eats your throat out (in a delicious manner) as it goes down...
...Next to frankfurters the soldier likes baked ham. Then roast veal and sausage. Fifteen per cent of all roast beef, bacon and cold cuts goes back to the kitchen, 25% of liver. Never strong for green vegetables, the soldier especially detests kale. He likes baked potatoes next to mashed...
...understand Beethoven as it does practice in reading to enjoy Shakespeare. It is also foolish to attach some sort of moral valuation to one kind of music, as so many people do, as if you would get an aisle seat in Heaven for listening to "good" music, and roast in Hades for fainting yourself with jazz. Tolstoi thought that all music was an invention of the devil, and he may have been right. Jazz is the music of the moment as football is the sport of the moment, but classical music, like a game of chess, takes practice...
...best the system is working on a week to week basis, since a commodity available in quantity one week is priceless the next. Meat and butter have been the latest victims of war shortages. Recently a steward planned to have roast beef for a House dinner. The order was placed and the menu printed, when the dealer announced that he could only procure lamb. Even Boston's great staple, seafood, is becoming scarce as the war intrudes upon the activities of offshore fishermen...
While we are eating our roast turkey and cranberries in America, Bill Fisher and Bill Vandivert in New Delhi have been invited to eat their Indian equivalent with General Ferris-while Teddy White in Chungking will probably get together with the few other American old timers at the Embassy. Harry Zinder may get back from the desert in time to have his Christmas dinner with Jack Belden at Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo where Rommel planned to have his headquarters by now- and I will be surprised if Will Lang and Lincoln Barnett don't have a really...