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...Roast Beef but No Steak...
Last week, between teaching classes in composition at Tanglewood, Composer Honegger toyed with a lunch of roast ham and pineapple (a gastronomic dissonance he had never encountered in France) and talked about his music. He had no favorites: "Our works are rather like our children, children that are grown up and married. Once completed, they start on a life of their own." The Boston Symphony scheduled one of the children, Symphony for Strings, for its first major Berkshire concert next week...
...guests ate their way through shrimp cocktail, roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, mixed vegetables, coffee, before the confusion* began to clear a little. A Congressman noticed a tiny typewritten card almost hidden by the roses. He nudged the guest on his left. The nudging passed around the table like a ripple. The luncheon was in honor of the stranger, Sir Frederick Bain, no G-man, but president of the Federation of British Industries, which represents about 80% of British manufacturing...
...custom dies hard in England. To Kingsteignton's rescue came Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, who invited the village's ram-roast committee to the deer park of his 3,000-acre estate, let them shoot a buck. With that slight deviation to modern complexities, the village planned to carry on its ancient rite this week. But Kingsteigntonians were still rankled by the irreverent crack of a Communist M.P. during Rayner's plea. The Commie sneered that this was "one of those heathen customs the Conservative Party wants to retain...
...rolls, home-made butter, and coffee. The noon meal, the biggest of the day, offers steak or fried haddock, cod or halibut (taken out of the water a few hours earlier), cream-topped pies. The evening meal starts off with native clam or fish chowder, followed by a roast, hot rolls, more pie. Board and keep run from $15 to $17 a week...