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...turned out to be Harry Truman's kind of party. Though Washington's Mayflower Hotel had put out its best napery, the affair had the informality of a barbecue. Fortified with bourbon, 1,800 Democrats uncomplainingly ate the 700-calorie "austerity dinner" (tomato soup, baked chicken, potatoes, salad and one oatmeal cookie) for which they had paid $400 apiece. They whistled, whooped and slapped backs. Soprano Grace Moore rose with a flash of jewels, and sang a hillbilly song. Leon Henderson gave her a cigar...
...series of five "unity" dinners for Democratic Congressmen at Washington's plush Mayflower Hotel. The idea: to woo back into line Southerners and others who have strayed over to the opposition. Groups of 40 to 50 Congressmen were invited to each of the dinners, at which the salad will be mixed with solid talk about party solidarity in election year...
...During the latter stage of the war Americans were laughed at by their allies for the fruit salad on their chests. Without hearing a shot fired, a man could, by arranging his area ribbons, marksmanship medals, cheap commendations and awards, appear in the eyes of the uninitiate as a combination Sergeant York-Commando Kelly...
Sweet Dream. In Monessen, Pa., Sergeant Eddie Hughes's foxhole fantasy became a fact: a banana split consisting of two quarts of ice cream, one quart of fruit salad, ten bananas and proportionate applications of marshmallow, whipped cream, chocolate, pineapple and cherries...
...lunched at King's house, on lobster, filet mignon, asparagus salad, raspberries a la mode. At Earnscliffe, stately home of British High Commissioner Malcolm MacDonald, he talked with Canadian Socialist Leader M. J. Coldwell. If they did more than exchange niceties, they kept it to themselves. At night there were Scotch highballs and more food-oysters, roast turkey, baked Alaska-at a state dinner at the swank Country Club...