Osso bucho correction; "Come as you are" party

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OSSO BUCHO CORRECTION

   I knew it.
   From Clementine Paddleford's column in the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 13 April 1946. pg. 18, col. 5:

   READER REPORTERS--Felix, manager of Center City Restaurant, 23 East Thirty-ninth Street, in a moment of exurberance, declared his restaurant the only place in the United States where Osso Bucho is served.  This, if you don't know the dish, is a veal knuckle braised in the Milanese manner.  "Felix was making a mighty broad statement," writes C. John Crockett.  "I had Osso Bucho at Roberto's on Forty-sixth Street a couple of weeks ago, and very good, too."  From Sugar Bush Farm, Putney, Vt., Mrs. F. P. Whiting advises: "Felix evidently doesn't know Osso Bucho has been a specialty of the house of Barbetta's, West Forty-sixth Street, for nearly forty years."

(40 years would be an antedate for the dish--ed.)

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"COME AS YOU ARE" PARTY

   I haven't seen this recorded.
   It's in the editorial cartoon in the NYHT, 24 APpril 1946, pg. 24, cols. 5-7.  Mr. and Mrs. America are wearing barrels because of shortages.  She says:

   ALL I KNOW IS SOMEBODY CALLED AND INVITED US TO A _"COME AS YOU ARE"_ PARTY!