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...qualities which make a smart Hollywood restaurant click are as fragile as the promise in a starlet's eye. The essentials for success-more subtle than LaRue's Royal Squab Diable ($2.25) and the decor which Hollywoodians describe as "chichi like crazy"-are Billy Wilkerson's secret. Smart as LaRue may be, it is less smart than its proprietor...
...friends she feared might be too busy for such things for the rest of 1943. She explained: "They're all war workers." Among them: diamond-studded Mrs. Byron Foy, Mrs. Muriel Vanderbilt Church Phelps, Consuelo Vanderbilt Smith Davis Warburton. Eaten: supreme of melon in port wine, boned squab with white grapes new peas in butter, hearts of endive and beet roots and fine herbs, floating heart ice cream with figs, petit fours, demitasse. It was meatless Tuesday...
...Squab & Turkey. At noon he was back at the University Club, this time in the lounge on the second floor, to be greeted by members of Beta Theta Pi, his college fraternity, and members of the Los Angeles Big Ten Club. They called for a speech. He climbed onto a settee and left no doubt that he was ad dressing them as a candidate for the Presidency. Then he spent 20 minutes shaking hands...
...blocks away, seated at a long luncheon table in the California Club. The Republican Finance Committee was meeting to eat squab and talk finances-an affair planned long before Willkie's trip. He got a belated invitation. Naturally he dominated it. Again he gave an off-the-record, face-to-face turkey talk; again he left with real applause ringing in his ears...
...bugle blared, the Stars & Stripes were raised, a diver swan-dived from a high platform, and a dozen white doves fluttered away to "tell the four corners of the earth" that St. Louis was host to a national swimming meet. The doves (actually squab bought from a local poultry dealer) got no farther than the four corners of the pool, but the 54th annual men's outdoor swimming championships went ahead just the same...