Show O Oj 2 i j li k i y I r 1 w. w w O l 1 I I 11 F j b t One of the national magazines last laet week week listed what they called the 20 20 beet places In the United States to eat And do you know Ive I've never eaten In a single one of t them em Now how unless you ou pay fifty thousand doll am are you going to get listed as the best restaurant restaurant ant lIot man In the country Who knows what might happen the lay day you you or I drop droll in Maybe the the chef Is drunk maybe they got In Ina a II b bad ld shipment of lobster maybe maybethe the vinegar and the oil cruets got turned aroun around I Or Or maybe youre you're mad or upset up- up set net about something and the finest food in the w world o 0 r rid l d wouldn't wouldn taste like a delicacy i One night for Instance I was waa 1 with a gr group up in the most famous eating place In io New Orleans a abig I 1 big ig old house with all lI the rooms still there converted Into semi semi- pr PI vats vate dining rooms I ordered I the specialty specially of the house I i didn't like It Clay Allred did The best steak I ever ate was wason wason I o on the Carrier Midway guest of i Captain Ralph Cousins That can I hardly be listed as one of the test Lest But it was then I 1 I think good eating depends on your company and the way you feel For instance coffee and five pieces of clammy toast might be perfect under certain conditions And a formal dinner In the finest hotel In Canada might taste like sawdust If you were wishing you were somewhere somewhere somewhere some some- some some- where else l rz Last night My Lady Fair Fall and I at ate b before fore the fireplace warmed 1 over beans bons and ham hocks bocks With good bread soaking In the broth Thata That's livin man You probably couldn't buy that In San Fran Fran- cisco Or Wash even Each time I pull a boo boo-boo and get I like to share it with with you Take like for Instance Friday evening We Yo were at Valley alley Music Hall In North Salt Lake to hear Dinah Shore Col Co Lee of Morgan went went to high school and college with her when she waa was Fanny Rose Shore of Tennessee Ten Ten- It might be fun to see her he thought I And eo so carrying hs h's personal note not I I made my way backstage and armed with the press card I which can get you into all of places and trouble approach i approached ed the dressing rooms Here I 1 was stopped by the official custodian He lie asked me nIe I Iwho who I wanted to see and 1 I I COULDN'T OF lIEU HEIR NAME I Uh you know the star I bumbled II He lIe looked me over I stared I wildly about for a wall poster or ora ora or ora a plate door-plate anything I was des des- des I I II I He lIe continued to glare at me Coldly j I Finally Youre Youfe In the wrong I place buster Out Out Which is where I went Out I I Fast ast Blushing lushing furiously Cut But first t stubbornly I left him himI I the colonels colonel's card And after the chow she met met us us very graciously I i and Informally While she and andLee andLee j Lee chatted about old friends I and whatever happened to so and so we listened and stared She is one of the warmest most gracious unaffected delightful celebrities we have met And Arid Ill I'll never ever forget her name Lets Let's see see-Lydia see Lydia Ada Sylvia Donna See what I mean mean Mac |