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...Management (John Raitt) Meets Labor (Janis Paige), Management Fires Labor, then, with a little more dexterous management, rehires and weds her. En route there are small blobs and faint glimmers of satire, the usual doings at shop and picnic grounds, and some wackily unusual ones in a chop-suey joint...
There has been a noticeable lack of meat in the recent chop suey served up by the Central Kitchen. Whether this has been an oversight, an economy measure, or a deliberate plot by a vegetarian chef, it must be rectified. Harvard houses used to serve the best chop suey this aide of Yee Hung Gooey's magnificent restaurant on Oxford Street. But this reputation is sure to vanish if meatless chop suey becomes official policy...
There is a triangular consistency to good chop suey: there must be rice, for body and nutritional value; there must be vegetables, for crispness and good flavor; but there must also be meat cunning little bite-sine slices which hide among the rice and vegetables and furnish the tang without which no chop suey can be enjode. Where there is no meat, there is no meal, for just as the door plucks the mushroom from the field of toadstools, so does the discriminating diner prove his chop suey with his fork and extracts the tender pieces of flesh...
...lover of good eating, I urge the Central Kitchen to return meat to its rightful place in our luncheon chop suey. If they do not, I shall be forced to turn in my board number and take the rest of my meals in Crinstown. --Mark Jacobs...
...Eagle Hotel was jammed and seething. Coats & hats were piled on the twin beds, and people were perching cheerfully on top of the coats & hats. Others helped themselves to the open bottles of Scotch, bourbon and rye on the dresser, or dug into the communal paper buckets of chop suey, chicken and egg rolls on the table. Looming above the pandemonium, with the air of a prophet who has just been slugged by a vigorous vision, was Candidate Estes Kefauver. He moved slowly through the throng, sipping a Scotch highball, dropping an affectionate long arm around shoulder after shoulder...