Word: squabs
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...South Sea Sinner when a tuxedoed headwaiter from Ciro's marched down the center aisle. Behind him came two red-coated flunkies, ceremoniously bearing aloft a jumbo-sized shrimp cocktail. They halted and served it to a hefty customer three seats off the aisle. Then came Squab under Glass, Caesar Salad, Cherries Jubilee (in flaming brandy). By the time Erskine Johnson had eaten his way to the check ($12.65), the audience was also fed up; it chorused, "Throw...
...presidential boom for Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg was on. The Detroit News published an excited editorial entitled: "Vandenberg: Man of the Hour!" Some 700 Michigan Republicans gathered at the swank Detroit Athletic Club to eat squab, lay plans for raising a $950,000 campaign fund, and to extol the virtues of Van. Cried Governor Kim Sigler: "Any influence I have will be used to convince the convention . . . that he will be a sure winner...
...sights high. What he wanted, he said, was syndication-first national, then global. He put out a highly readable, often unbearable column full of cream-puff crises and chichi. Sometimes, to angle it down Hearst's alley, he sternly lectured his readers on why broiled squab and Valentina gowns were Worth Fighting...
...beachheads of the postwar world, another educational landing craft was launched last week, with a squab-and-champagne party in Los Angeles (total expenses for two days' entertainment: $20,000). The craft: a new four-year course in fashion design and merchandising, at big, businesslike University of California at Los Angeles...
...General was miserably tired, his eyes ringed with deep black. But he drank heartily of Manhattans, French sauterne, American Burgundy and Portuguese champagne, and cleaned up his squab and asparagus tips. At 10:42 he was out in the lobby again. Many distinguished people have walked through the Carlton lobby, but never before had the well-dressed loungers bothered to stand up and applaud...