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...breakfast tray, along with grapefruit and coffee, the guest finds a schedule card listing, half-hour by half-hour, her activities for the day, e.g., calisthenics, scalp massage, "intracellular masque," daily manicure and pedicure, a reducing ordeal that consists of being coated with hot wax and left to stew. In between treatments, she is firmly encouraged to drink down plenty of vegetable juices, "potassium broth," and a secret-formula "diet...
Died. Betty MacDonald, 49, hen-raising, hen-hating ranchwife-authoress of the nonfiction bestseller (1945) The Egg and I (later adapted for the movies and TV), whose success egged her on to write others (The Plague and I, Onions in the Stew); of cancer; in Seattle...
...there were quiet times. When the sun began to set the boxes would be closed and the stalls shut, the smoky air filled with the smell of stew and then the kids owned the streets. Dirty-faced hombres argued with scrawny paisanos, and miniature Buddhas contemplated life from their front stoops...
...striking force. But fast-moving airmen are not always easy to corner. The Washington Bureau's Edwin Rees was lucky enough to catch White on the ground, persuaded Mrs. White to order him home early from his office one afternoon, interviewed the general over the bowl of oyster stew that Mrs. White had prepared for him. The Los Angeles Bureau's John Koffend flew to SAC headquarters in Omaha to talk with SAC Commander Thomas S. Power, discovered that Power had just flown in from Washington, was set to fly out to Europe, was too busy...
...intellectual intensity of the authors can be discerned in the section "The West You Can Enjoy." Here is given a directory of places you should see in the West, as well as recipes for Western dishes, including "Apache Sunset" and "Son of a Bitch Stew." This is all indispensable for those interested in the West, but it hardly helps answer the question: What effect did the West have on its inhabitants...