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Show WESTBROOK PEGLER Roasting the Lamb Chops NOW that It is all over, I wish Mr. Truman would tell me where he saw those 75-cent lamb ; chops that he talked so much about. For a long time, fair to good lamb chops have been steady to f T I ? k Us brisk at two dol-1 lars a unit in the humble inn where room-service mothers moth-ers my modest wants and we seldom sel-dom speak of steak because even a thread-bare little sheet of senile b'tll-muscle b'tll-muscle of a size Beyond that, steaks go Into the metaphysical realm of the noncommittal noncom-mittal maybe. It Is not a subject for the waiters, but one for agents and negotiation. If yon are really serious, the thing to do is go to a licensed broker and get him to scuffle around and bring In a set of offerings. Even the Stork club doesn't carry steak as an article ar-ticle of trade these days and you will understand what that means when yon remember that the Stork has been practically the inner sanctum of the state department, the F. B. I., the supreme court and the selfless secretariat of the White House for 16 years. The menu doesn't invite your in-erest in-erest in steak. It snarls: "Broiled filet Mignon, Baltimore, $5.00." -et mignon means steak. F MR. TRUMAN DOES KNOW 'I ERE LAMB CHOPS GO FOR ; TENTS, JUST WHAT IS HIS -;SIT!ON ON THAT, ANYWAY7 and texture suit-PEGLER suit-PEGLER able for black-eye therapy is $3.50. The regular steaks are practica ly out of print because they star; at four dollars for the minute vpi-sion, vpi-sion, which is not a measure ,f time but an old French pro-meaning: pro-meaning: "How did you find steak?" "Oh. I found it under or.t . the peas." |