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...made. Or broiled lobster tails or cold boiled fish with mayonnaise. Entree-meat (generally chops, beefsteak, chicken or veal cutlet) or fish (lake trout au court bouillon), Chops and steak broiled over open fire. Chicken similarly broiled or else boiled with rice. Veal cutlets dredged in flour, cooked in skillet with water and served with mushroom sauce. Squab chicken on spit before open fire. Two green vegetables, potatoes or rice. Sweet pie or homemade pudding, such as apple betty, bread pudding, rice pudding, custard; cookies or homemade cakes or gingerbread, canned fruit; canned babas au rhum, etc. Salad with French...
Around the Tepee. That Owen has made a mistake is apparent to all but Owen. At the drop of a skillet, Isabel quotes romantic tag lines from Sir Walter Scott, interspersed with bloodcurdlingly cute dialogue of her own. Sample: "You good husband. I bad wife. I keep ugh tepee." Around the ugh tepee gather subsidiary characters who have the power of total reverie, and pages may pass before a simple question gets a simple answer...
...next stage of life for Dave is his strange platonic affair with Gwen French. Gwen is teacher of "creative writing" at Parkman College, where "the sharp vinegary smell of intellectual ferment was everywhere... and the sizzling sound of the frying brains." Naturally, Dave falls into her skillet. He dreams of "a long, rich, exchangeful, reaching out, and perhaps even sometimes touching, making contact, love affair." But Gwen French believes that unrequited love drives a man to ink. Dave's novel progresses to a tattoo of discipline and advice ("Don't complexify...
...onetime legislative reporter for the Albany Knickerbocker Press, Pressagent Wheaton had been women's publicity director for the Republican National Committee for 18 years when she became the first woman press aide in White House history (TIME, April 15). A divorcee, she is as skillful with the skillet (specialty: corn pudding and fried chicken) as the handout. In her most critical task last week, she showed cucumber-cool efficiency in getting out advance texts of Ike's speech at precisely the promised hour (two hours before TV time), even looked serene as she distributed copies...
...coaxing, Mrs. Adams agrees to spill some pseudo pregnancy news over Flaire's national TV hookup.* Unfortunately, a makeup artist named Jacques Mario Jean Petrovich goes into a dither over Mrs. Adams' "firm ample tummy [which] was shaped like the underside of a round 15-inch skillet." The pair are about to start cooking with gas when Blade starts playing Bogart with Jacques's face ("Slap...