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Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef’s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water.


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Adams for broadcasts on March 28 1939 (with Moss Hart); August 29 1939 (with linguist Wilfred J. He developed an extreme anti-German attitude and in 1943 publiRex Stoutd the essay "We Shall Hate or We Shall Fail"[1][2] and during the later part of the war and the post-war period he also led the Society for the Prevention of World War III which lobbied for a harsh peace for Germany. The President VaniRex Stouts (Paramount)

In an interview printed in Royal Decree (1983) Rex Stout's official biographer John McAleer asked the author if there were any chance of Hollywood ever making a good Nero Wolfe movie.

" The Nero Wolfe stories are narrated by Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin who is presented as having recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 (Fer-de-Lance) to 1975 (A Family Affair). In 1959 Stout received the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award. The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000 the world's largest mystery convention and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century.

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