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...This book," says Reynolds, "is as personal as a toothache, a liking for spinach or a taste in fancy ties. It is the story of the things I saw and the people I met in a year's roving from one theatre of war to another. . . ." There is little fighting war in Reynolds' book. But there is an inordinate amount of Legman Reynolds reacting to the excitement, triumphs, tragedies and discomforts of war-especially the discomforts...
...ration is three a month. Baked spaghetti and macaroni dishes are almost impossible to make, because farinaceous foods are either unobtainable or rationed to near zero. Soho shops still sell ravioli occasionally, but it is filled only with spinach. Most people have forgotten the taste of cheese or wish they could forget it. All sausage is partly packed with bread crumbs. More than a quarter of a pound of sugar might be allotted each person weekly if so much were not being sent...
...than grotesque, less like the end of Man's Fate than the end of A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go. When the cat and her kittens come tumbling in and pounce on the rat, the mouse and the little frog-gie, it is still just gamins and spinach. For Author Paul is guilty of one of the oldest of demagogic fallacies: he confuses democracy with its lowest common denominators...
Last week several important sponsors took a more adult tone in their messages. On CBS's evening news roundup, United Fruit went so far as to advise cabbage and spinach along with grapefruit and bananas for the balanced wartime diet. Curt and clearly patriotic was Gruen, which snapped: "Buy a Gruen watch, but buy a defense bond first...
...orders would also play hob with West Coast agriculture. In the Los Angeles area, Japanese produce more than half the truck crops?especially celery, spinach, beets, string beans?vegetables which take infinite work and patience. In Santa Cruz County, a $500,000 crop of sprouts and artichokes awaited harvesting by Italians. Most of California's tomato crop, which accounts for a fourth of U.S. canned tomatoes, has been grown by Japanese farmers...