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Canada's lower meat prices have long been the envy of U.S. housewives. Last week, T-bone steaks were 70? a lb. in Lethbridge and sirloin was 75? in Ottawa. This was a third less than New Yorkers were paying, but Canadian housewives thought the prices outrageous. In Ottawa they paraded with a papier-mâché cow, demanding a rollback. They would certainly protest more loudly if prices jumped again-as prices certainly would if the government lifted the embargo on beef shipments to the U.S. Yet cattlemen in Calgary, selling choice steers for record prices...
...Post gave readers a bite-by-bite account of 21 elaborate meals, from scrambled eggs to sirloin steaks, eaten by Senator and Mrs. Taft on their campaign trek through the West (TIME, Oct. 6). The Post's sarcastic purpose: "To determine-from Senator Taft's example . . . how the average American should ration himself." Broadcaster Don Hollenbeck, referee of the weekly CBS Views the Press, promptly called a foul. Said Hollenbeck, who doesn't like Bob Taft either: "It was quite a propaganda job. . . . The purpose was ... to make Mr. Taft and his hosts...
First prize-$600 and a gold medal-went to pretty, rosy-cheeked Jessie Hazard Smith, an Edmonton housewife. Her dish: Alberta Gold Medal ranch steak, cut off the fillet, rump, sirloin or tenderloin, dipped in salad oil, grilled in a hot pan from eight to twelve minutes, spread with one tablespoon of butter and sprinkled with salt & pepper...
Same night, same city, New York County Republicans dined more austerely at the Waldorf-Astoria. For $50 a plate, 1,200 diners got stuffed tomato, sirloin of beef, nuts and coffee, and a speech by Governor Thomas E. Dewey...
...toss of 172 feet, 11 3/4 inches broke the Harvard record by two feet, 10 3/4 inches, and manager George Caploe should actually be credited with an assist Friday night at the famous Homestead restaurant, after the trials, Caploe offered to buy the former Varsity center a two inch sirloin steak if he would break the record Saturday. Fisher, with customary indifference, said he couldn't promise anything but that he would "go all out" to set a new record. He got the steak dinner...