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While the balcony guests ate ice-cream sandwiches, the downstairs crowd ate Surprise Monteux, a concoction of Danish spongecake, French vanilla bisque, raspberry melba sauce and chopped walnuts sprinkled with brandy. It was no surprise to Gourmet Monteux himself; he had had a sample in advance, and some had even been air-expressed to friends.* But he forked away with a will (see cut). Said "he: "Peach melba, pah! Nobody will talk about it again...
...Paul Pops. The Pops are evenings of Music supplied by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, punctuated by two short ice revues. The season is a rugged one of three performances and six daylong rehearsals every week, and Barbara keeps fit for them on a concessionaire's diet of vanilla ice cream canes and potato chips...
...After that paralyzing moment the plane gained forward momentum. Two hundred and fifty feet below, the sea looked like a huge vanilla milk-shake in a mixer. All around, for a hundred miles in any direction and for possibly 20,000 feet upward, was the hurricane. We were in the center...
Seth Ramkrishna Dalmia is Mr. Big No. 3 of Indian Big Business.* He owns six newspapers, an airline, a big insurance company, a bank and most of India's cement factories. He also has four wives. Last month Businessman Dalmia, a Hindu, summoned the press to pink lemonade, vanilla ice cream and green gage plums on the lawn of his big house in New Delhi. Then he read a 2,500-word statement. "I ask that people treat the cow and look after it as well as they look after their mother."† Soon thereafter, his six newspapers began...
...Vanilla Please. When a drugstore and a grill in Riceville, la. offered ice cream at the cut rate of 20? a pint, competitors lowered their prices to 15?. Soon the price war reached the point where ice cream was being given away. One store finally posted a sign: "One cent paid to those asking for a pint of ice cream and taking it out of the store." The war ended only when ammunition...