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...sure that none of his American customers ever got any such specimen of Greek culinary without being prepared for it, John Cocoris used to explain the mysteries personally to each and every bewildered diner. Today, Greek food is better known in this locality, the Athens, like its neighbor, Jake Wirth's has become a Boston institution, and Cocoris, thanks to his zeal, is a wealthy...
...thirty-five thousand dollars now being spent on remodelling is a mere drop in the bucket compared to the yearly earnings, but Cocoris feels leery about making too many alterations. The interior of Jake Wirth's next door has hardly been changed since the turn of the century, nor has anyone ever thought seriously of ripping off the Gay Nineties brass button and black leather effects at Locke Ober's several blocks away. Some of the waiters, who have themselves been part of the scenery for twenty years or more, are disappointed that he is not planning to take...
...nostrils dilate voluptuously with the smell of dill. "Ah, Bock," he smiled ecstatically, unaffected by his friend's matter-of-fact terseness. "Harbinger of Spring. Once a year the brewers clean out the dregs from their barrels and market this heady, brown nectar. Why, it's better than Jake Wirth's dark, and you can save the subway trip." He held his glass up and examined its rich molasses-like color in the light. The strains of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps revamped by Freddie Martin began to permeate the vernal atmosphere...
Here & there a city got to work. Example: Newark planned 300 temporary houses (needed: 7,000). Here & there a voice spoke out in alarm: Sociologist Louis Wirth, chairman of an emergency Chicago housing committee, prepared a careful report urging the city to convert factories, office buildings and war plants into makeshift shelter. But mostly the problem was just talked about...
...testimony. But Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch, the Academy's superintendent, does not want his men to have to march too far between classes and dormitories. Said he: "There is no other tract of land comparable to the St. John's acreage." When a four-striper, Captain Theodore Wirth, said that the Academy has its traditions too, the crowded committee room cheered...