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Next day I got ready to accompany a group of "have-money people" on a flight from Peiping to Shanghai. Under the curved roof of a windowless Quonset hut at Peiping airfield, 40 people huddled in the dim light around a tiny coal stove. A flimsy door banged open, and the airline manager poked his head in and announced that the plane was due in 15 minutes. But instead of the scheduled DC-4, it would be a bucket-seat, twin-engine C-46. A tall Chinese in a long, fur-lined gown plucked off his fedora hat and rubbed...
...Howard Hughes, he can forget it. For "Station West," one of the last pictures Schary made at RKO before his collision with Hughes, will certainly accomplish any dark purpose he may have in mind. It stinks and it will make Mr. Hughes squirm like a rattlesnake on a lot stove...
...what America would be like/If the Classics had a wide circulation/ Troubles my sleep."). But though he is desperately eager to appear the European sophisticate, there is always in Pound's work a strong tinge of the small-town American crank-the kind who spits on the stove in the general store and spouts about "guvment" and "money changers...
Included in the group were six lettermen from last year--Bill Prior, Walt McCurdy, Bill Mobraaten, Stove Davis, Johnny Rockwell, and Cliff Crosby...
...slowly in an old-fashioned iron Dutch oven or heavy aluminum roaster. Bacon drippings, onions, celery tops, bay leaves, parsley, salt & pepper add flavor. When the meat is browned on both sides I add a little water, cover tightly, and let it barely simmer on top of the stove for about three hours, occasionally adding a little more water. Potatoes, carrots and celery are steamed on top of the roast during the last hour and a half . . . Roast and vegetables [make] a Sunday dinner for at least four people...