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Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, on a recent quick trip to Moscow, was wined & dined by correspondents, who treated him to a $50-a-person supper of zakuska and borsch (hors d'oeuvres and vegetable soup), scalloped veal, etc. When a Red Army captain was invited over from another table, Colonel Roosevelt insisted, after a due amount of casual conversation, that the captain be told, off the record, the colonel's identity. The captain was at first incredulous, then convinced and delighted. Toasts to President Roosevelt, Stalin, the Second Front were exchanged; finally the beaming Russian whispered to his friend...
...They work in crews of six, travel in bateaux (oversized row-boats), sometimes wade chest-deep in icy water. They will seldom be dry until the logs reach Keegan late in June. They eat prodigiously and often (breakfast at dawn, first lunch at 10 a.m., second at 2 p.m., supper in the early evening). The river staples are meat, potatoes and pie, but there are always baked beans & molasses, black and dripping with pork...
...thought it a beer drinking contest as they showed up in athletic gear. The combined classes split the usually austere atmosphere with well-oiled tonsils. "It must have been quite a time," commented one of Cowie's lovelier dietitians, "to keep the boys away from our wonderful weekly fish supper." (Honest, lady, we love the finny folk...
...best-known U.S. dog had a birthday last week. Franklin Roosevelt's Fala, his eyes hidden under a mass of black hair, received photographers on the south lawn of the White House, sniffed nonchalantly at cake with white and lavender frosting and four candles. For supper he had an extra bone...
...clock.the Duce's stomach ulcers could stand no more. The household gathered for supper. Afterward, the man who once said, "I shall make my life a masterpiece" browsed in a book, chatted quietly. Punctually at 10, he shuffled...