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...More Stews. Most other adjustments of the season are not so painful. The lady of the house takes over in earnest again on the family range. After a summer of salads, barbecue meats and cold cuts, supermarkets suddenly begin to sell more potatoes, carrots, turnips and stew meats, while small steaks tend to give way in popularity to roasts, ribs and the heavier cuts of meats. Tea slumps, and coffee, cocoa, soups and chili rise. Candy sales -both low-calorie and weight-increasing -jump about 40% in the fall. At the same time, down goes the lowly frankfurter; after Labor...
Adams, who seemed to be everywhere on the battlefield, made a point of eating supper one night in the field with a bearded guerrilla unit wearing tattered civilian clothes. The menu: catfish stew and fried water moccasin. "You keeping clean?" Adams asked one guerrilla. "Yes, sir," was the reply. "We wash our socks and underclothes every day. It doesn't get them clean, but it keeps the smell out." "That's important," said the general with approval. "Always keep the clothes next to your body clean. When you're moving fast, that's what slows...
...corporation. Show's hope is to add a large part of USA* 1's circulation to its own 140,000. Editor Frank Gibney and Campbell, who will join Show's staff, now face the task of stirring the arts, news and history, too, into a salable stew. But that's Show business...
...staging the first $100-a-plate dinner in 1934. His potluck for politics held good when the Senate rejected a Republican attempt, 62-30, to return the nomination over some alleged finagling in the 1946 purchase of a Government-surplus shipyard by Entrepreneur Louis Wolfson. But a regular Irish stew may await McCloskey on the Quid Sod. Demonstrating his Gaelic at a Washington dinner, he bellowed: "Fag a bealach!" Rudely reverberating in Tara's halls, it loosely means...
...political society. Included were the Lyndon Johnsons, British Ambassador David Ormsby Gore and Lady O. G., Supreme Court Associate Justice Whizzer White, Mrs. John Glenn and her husband (who has been something of a fixture at the Hickory Hill lunching pad since he got back from outer space), the Stew Udalls, the Orville Freemans, the Arthur Goldbergs and assorted White House aides, including Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Larry O'Brien. The guests of honor were the President's sister Patricia and her actor husband, Peter Lawford. There was, of course, the dance music of the comparable Lester Lanin...