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...saying: "I don't want to be tolerated; I want my rights." Another expressed pleasure over Willkie's advice to Negroes: "Don't get tied up to anybody; make them bid for you. Don't let them deal with the Southern Democrats and feed you spinach in Harlem at the same time...
Explanations. In Atlantic City, N.J., six-year-old George Patrick McLaughlin of Philadelphia was discovered hiding in a locomotive tender, promptly demanded spinach, explained he was en route to join the Marines and fight the Japs. In Jefferson County, Mo., twelve-year-old Vina Marler Nash, newly married, commented, "It's pretty nice. ... I guess I won't have to go back to school this fall." In Junction City, Kans., Marguerite See, a bus driver, drove with one foot bare, explained, "I can do a smoother job on the clutch...
Encouragement has come to her from far & wide. One eloping bride telegraphed her family: AM MARRIED. ORDER ANNOUNCEMENTS. SEND ME A ROMBAUER COOKBOOK AT ONCE. One man gazed fondly at Mrs. Rombauer, announced, "At last I can eat spinach." A firm Rombauer fan is Mrs. Leon Henderson, wife of one of the New Deal's best-fed figures. Once the Hendersons had kitchen trouble. Nothing "seemed to work out right" until one day Mr. Henderson brought The Joy of Cooking home. Since then, the Hendersons have eaten well. Mrs. Henderson believes that Author Rombauer has "really done something...
...Spinach was being dumped, left to rot, forecasting what will come when seasonal fresh vegetables, abetted by thousands of Victory gardens, glut the market. The outlook for commercial canners is gloomy. Reported the American Institute of Food Distribution in Manhattan: canneries, unable to get help with the low pay the wage freeze caught them with, have closed in Maryland, Texas, Indiana and New York. Canneries in Washington, Oregon and many another state are threatening to close...
...career of her childhood heroine and present tutor, nine-time national champion Maribel Vinson, Miss Merrill has led a Spartan life during skating seasons. She goes to bed at 7 o'clock so she can be up at 6:30 for practice before school; diets on steak, spinach and milk to keep herself in shape. Her free-skating routines she maps out on paper and tries out at home in her stocking feet, taking her split jumps over a sofa...