Jerry Stratton

With changes in diets and eating habits, many old-time favorite recipes have been abandoned. Some, too delicious to give up, are in this section. We think they’re worth keeping in our changing culture.

As good cooks know, the uniformity of sugar is particularly important to accurate measurement. Level measurements of Imperial Pure Cane Sugar always represent exactly the same amount of sugar. And because it’s extra fine granulated, Imperial Pure Cane Sugar is quick dissolving. It lends quickly and smoothly with other ingredients.

You think he’ll say that?” Crowder asked.

“Sure, he’ll say it,” Mason said. “He damned well has to say it. Otherwise he’d be out on the pan for giving a patient a prescription for such a large amount of powerful hypnotics. You can point out to him that his reputation is going to be put on the line and that before the press smears him, you think that it would be a good idea for the press to learn the true facts.”

“And then tell him what the true facts are?” Crowder asked.

“Everything you do here, everything you stand for, is to prepare people for the happiness of their souls in the hereafter, when what they need is for someone to help them find happiness now, while they live.”

It was Pope Alexander’s turn to feel confused… As far as he could tell, this Blessed Ironworker had no theology. It was an alienation of spirit and purpose and understanding of what God’s work among men necessitated.

“Sure, but you know I’m not a gambler, Quince. I never do anything risky.”

First you bought a Ruby Safety Reflector for the rear, so that your posterior would glow in another car’s brilliance. Then you invested thirty-nine cents in some radiator Moto Wings, a popular ornament which gave the Pegasus touch to the machine and did something god-like to the owner. For nine cents you bought a fan-belt guide to keep the belt from slipping off the pulley.

I can still feel my old Ford nuzzling me at the curb, as though looking for an apple in my pocket.

Owners had their own theories about everything; they discussed mutual problems in that wise, infinitely resourceful way old women discuss rheumatism. Exact knowledge was pretty scarce, and often proved less effective than superstition.

You see, the Model T driver moved in the realm of metaphysics. He believed his car could be hexed.

One day [Howard] Hughes had a one o’clock game scheduled at Bel-Air with Katie Hepburn… They were taking bets that Howard wouldn’t show, but at precisely five minutes to one a private plane landed on a fairway at Bel-Air and Hughes stepped out, ready to play. After 9 holes, Howard discovered that his plane had been chained to the ground and the club had imposed a $2,000 fine for landing on a fairway. Howard wrote out the check and finished the round.

He was an excellent player, with the slowest backswing I’ve ever seen. While he was taking the club back you could fit him for a tailored suit.

…in 1970, while I was doing a television show at NASA… Shepard and Deke Slayton showed me a training device used by the men who would be soon walking on the moon.
… The apparatus was necessary because of lunar gravity, meaning that on the moon you had only one sixth of your weight on earth.
… Well, they strapped me into the harness and I, in effect, weighted only one sixth of my normal poundage. Involuntarily I went up on my toes and, feeling just a bit frightened, placed my driver down to act as a tripod.
Shepard, watching closely, had a funny smile on his face. Later he told me that was where he got the idea to take a golf club with him to the moon.