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We are sharing a very special Betty MacDonald fan club treasure written by Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Letizia Mancino today. ( see below )
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First published by the J. B. Lippincott Company on October 3, 1945, The Egg and I received laudatory reviews and soon appeared on the best-seller list.
The book was a blockbuster success as a novel, being reprinted on a nearly monthly basis for the next two years.
On September 12, 1946, the specially-bound one-millionth copy of the book was presented to MacDonald by Washington Governor Monrad Wallgren at a luncheon in Seattle.
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Betty MacDonald Fan Club proudly presents:
The amazing, very witty, charming, intelligent story written by our brilliant Betty MacDonald Fan Club Honor Member - artist and writer Letizia Mancino.
WHEN YOU DREAM, DREAM BIG
Copyright 2011/2015 by Letizia Mancino
All rights reserved
Translated by D. Tsiaprakas
Betty, I love you! Your books „Anybody can do anything“ and „Onions in the Stew“ are really outstanding! I take them into my hand, and at a stone's throw I am right away in America ! Columbus and the egg: The great discovery!
Your bestseller „The Egg and I“ the greatest discovery. And you and I! I know America: It's true what you are writing: That's America: Absolutely right! No, even to the least detail! The landscape and the passion: Do you know the country where pistols blossom? Brava, Betty, you are describing the Americans vividly, genuinely, insufferably, brushed upon paper. If I like to read your works? To read doesn't even express it! I can even hear and see everything: Nature, culture, subculture.
America has almost remained unchanged! O those cool Americans! Calculating, stockmarket, Wall Street, the financial crisis (even back in 1930), the gamblers, the bankruptcy of companies! The swarming of dodgers and cheaters. People left without money. Dispair und hunger! A terrible „Worst Case“ (when I knew but little English I thought it is sausage with cheese).
Still how impressive is the ability to adaptone self of the Americans: They know how to enjoy life, acrobats of survival! In the twinkle of an eye they achieved to adapt themselves and effect the work of pioneers: In the morning you are a cleaningwoman, in the evening a brothel woman! No problem!
„The insufficient, here it's becoming an event; The indescribable, here it's done;“ Mary Bard Jensen, your sister, was the treasure trove of procuring work: My word, what a power woman with unlimited imagination! She has recommended you everywhere: Betty can do everything, also write novels! Go ahead, sister, hurry up! The editor wants to see your manuscripts! Up to that point you had not written a single line! Wow! And if still everything goes wrong? No problem: When you dream, dream big!
Just look, you have become famous.The Egg and I You know that, Betty? I'll slip into „The Egg and I“ and come and be your guest! I want to get to know your chickens. I hate chickens! I'm a chickens slave from North America! O Betty, without these damned animals, no chance of you becoming famous! „The Egg and I“ you would never have written! How many readers you have made happy!
Your book is so amusing! Your witty fine (almost nasty) remarks about your family members and roundabout neighbours made me laugh so much! You have been born into a special family: Comfort was not desired: I can't but be amazed: What did your father say to your mother? After tomorrow I am going to work elsewhere: Thousands of miles away...He sent her a telegram: LEAVING FOR TWO YEARS ON THURSDAY FOR MEXICO CITY STOP GET READY IF YOU WANT TO COME ALONG – That was on Monday. Mother wired back: SHALL BE READY, and so she was.That's America! Improvisation, change, adventure. You show no weakness: Let's go! Your descriptions, Betty, about the tremendous happenings in nature have deeply frightened me.
Continent America, I'm terrified by you! I feel so small and threatened like a tiny fly before an enormous flyswatter! Your novel is very many-sided! The reader may use it even as a cook book! „The Egg and I“ starts straight away with a recipe: „Next to the wisdom that lamb meat doesn't taste good unless it has been roasted with garlic“. Do you enjoy the American food?
O Betty, it's too fatty for me and I hate garlic! (Betty is presently cooking lunch for Bob. She's continually talking to „STOVE“: STOVE is Bob's rival; in the beginning I thought it was being himself). She turns round and says: Well, so no garlic for you. No lamb either, Betty. I don't eat any meat! I'd actually prefer only fried eggs. Betty, let me make them myself. Then you try it!
Blow! „STOVE“ out of order! I don't succeed in turning it on! Damned! It's got more of a mind of its own than „STOVE“ of my friend, Hilde Domin! Bob's coming! He must eat directly! „Men eat anything, the swines! Says your grandmother Gammy“. Is it true? Do you like my chickens? Bob asked me without introducing himself. Yes, Bob (rude) I love them! I'm vegetarian. Do you want to clean the henhouse with me tomorrow? A, you're always getting up so early at four o'clock! Bob, that's not a job for me! He looked at me disdainfully! A Roman cissy! You need a reeducation at once! Help, Bob's attacking me! I rather change the novel immediately and move to the „Island“!
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Win the New Hampshire Primaries
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Donald J. Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont harnessed working-class fury on Tuesday to surge to commanding victories in a New Hampshire primary that drew a huge turnout across the state.
The
success by two outsider candidates dealt a remarkable rebuke to the
political establishment, and all but guaranteed protracted, bruising
races for each party’s presidential nomination.
Mr.
Trump, the wealthy businessman whose blunt language and outsider image
have electrified many Republicans and horrified others, benefited from
an unusually large field of candidates that split the vote among
traditional politicians like Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, who finished
second, and former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida.
But
Mr. Trump also tapped into a deep well of anxiety among Republicans and
independents in New Hampshire, according to exit polling data, and he
ran strongest among voters who were worried about illegal immigrants,
incipient economic turmoil and the threat of a terrorist attack in the
United States.
With
more than 80 percent of precincts reporting, Mr. Trump had received 35
percent of the vote, and Mr. Sanders approached 60 percent.
The
win for Mr. Sanders amounted to a powerful and painful rejection of
Hillary Clinton, who has a deep history with New Hampshire voters and
offered policy ideas that seemed to reflect the flinty, moderate
politics of the state. But Mr. Sanders, who has proposed an emphatically
liberal agenda to raise taxes and impose regulations on Wall Street,
drew support from a wide cross-section of voters, even edging her out
among women, boosted by his appeal among the young.
At
his victory party, Mr. Sanders, flashing a wide, toothy grin, pointed
to the large voter turnout as evidence that only he could energize the
Democratic electorate to defeat the Republicans in November.
“Together
we have sent a message that will echo from Wall Street to Washington,
from Maine to California,” Mr. Sanders said. “And that is that the
government of our great country belongs to all of the people, and not
just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors and their ‘super PACs.’ ”
While
Mr. Sanders led New Hampshire polls for the last month, and Mr. Trump
was ahead here since July, the wave of support for both men was
nonetheless stunning to leaders of both parties who believed that in the
end, voters would embrace more experienced candidates like Mrs. Clinton
or one of the Republican governors in the race. Yet the two men won
significant support from voters who felt betrayed by their parties and
were dissatisfied or angry with the federal government.
Beyond
Mr. Trump, four Republicans were clustered together, each receiving
less than 20 percent of the vote. Mr. Kasich’s surprise second-place
finish was driven by voters who described themselves as moderates and
independents and were charmed by his pragmatism and his upbeat campaign.
Effectively skipping Iowa, Mr. Kasich spent 62 days in New Hampshire,
holding 106 town hall-style events.
“We
never went negative because we have more good to sell than to spend our
time being critical of somebody else,” an ebullient Mr. Kasich told
supporters, vowing “to reshine America, to restore the spirit of America
and to leave no one behind.”
But
as striking as Mr. Kasich’s surge may have been, the fall of Senator
Marco Rubio of Florida may have been more significant. Mr. Rubio
initially appeared to be capitalizing on his strong finish in Iowa,
rising in the polls here, but a disastrous debate performance on
Saturday halted his momentum. Mr. Rubio; Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who won the leadoff Iowa caucuses; and Mr. Bush, whose campaign was all but left for dead after a series of poor debate performances and staff cutbacks, were bunched together.
Gov.
Chris Christie of New Jersey finished a disappointing sixth after
staking his campaign here. With little money left and a slim chance of
being eligible for a Republican debate on Saturday, the governor said he
was going back to New Jersey on Wednesday “to take a deep breath.”
Supporters of Mr. Bush, who formed an alliance with Mr. Christie here as
both sought to diminish Mr. Rubio, are lobbying him to endorse the former Florida governor.
Mr.
Trump’s win is the biggest victory in a New Hampshire Republican
primary since at least 2000. He won pluralities of both Republican and
independent voters, and showed strength across demographic groups. At an
exuberant victory party at a banquet hall in Manchester, people waved
foam fingers reading “You’re hired!” or “Make America great again!” Mr.
Trump’s remarks ranged from emotional expressions of thanks to his late
parents to more belligerent assertions that echoed his stump speech.
“I
am going to be the greatest jobs president that God ever created,”
vowed Mr. Trump, adding that he would “knock the hell out of ISIS,” or
the Islamic State.
Mr.
Trump’s performance here, which followed Mr. Cruz’s victory in Iowa,
has left the party establishment with two leading candidates who
Republican leaders believe cannot win a November general election.
And
with Mr. Rubio unable to establish himself as the clear alternative,
the Republican race moves to South Carolina with little more clarity
than before New Hampshire voted.
For
the Democrats, Mr. Sanders’s popularity with liberals, young people,
and some women and working-class white men has underscored potential
vulnerabilities for Mrs. Clinton in the nominating contests ahead. She
is now under enormous pressure to prove that her message can inspire and
rally voters.
In
a punchy concession speech, Mrs. Clinton tried to look beyond New
Hampshire and pledged to fight for the needs of black, Hispanic, gay and
female voters — members of the coalition that she believes will
ultimately win her the nomination.
“Now
we take this campaign to the entire country,” Mrs. Clinton said. “We’re
going to fight for every vote in every state,” she added, continuing,
“I know I have some work to do, particularly with young people.”
Clinton
advisers gritted their teeth Tuesday night as they dissected exit polls
and other data to try to fathom the depth of Mrs. Clinton’s political
vulnerabilities. One troubling sign: Mr. Sanders was the choice, nearly
unanimously, among voters who said it was most important to have a
candidate who is “honest and trustworthy.”Several advisers to Mrs.
Clinton said they were especially concerned about her
shakier-than-expected support among women — the group that provided her
margin for victory in the 2008 New Hampshire primary. The Clinton
strategy depends on her beating Mr. Sanders among women and attracting
large numbers of minority voters, like Hispanics in Nevada and
African-Americans in South Carolina. Those states hold the next
Democratic contests, later this month.
Both
the Sanders and Clinton campaigns have built robust political
operations in those next states, but Sanders advisers say momentum is on
their side after the New Hampshire victory and a near-tie in the Iowa
caucuses. Mr. Sanders is also hoping that his proposals for a $15
minimum wage and a breakup of big banks will find support in vote-rich
Las Vegas and Reno, where many people earn low wages and lost homes to
banks after the 2008 financial crisis.
A
win for Mr. Sanders in the Feb. 20 Nevada caucuses would raise
additional doubts about Mrs. Clinton. Perhaps wary about her chances
there, her campaign manager sent a memo to supporters Tuesday night
urging them to focus on the contests in March, when some 56 percent of
delegates will be awarded.
But
first Mrs. Clinton and her husband must shake off the New Hampshire
loss, one of the most stinging of their long political careers.
The
couple have been unusually attached to this state for decades: Bill
Clinton stabilized his scandal-plagued presidential bid in 1992 with a
second-place finish in the primary, and Mrs. Clinton made her own
comeback in 2008 by winning here with 39 percent of the vote after
losing the Iowa caucuses to Barack Obama.
This
time around, the Clintons tried to diminish the state’s importance by
arguing that Mr. Sanders had an advantage because he was from a
neighboring state. But they campaigned vigorously all the same, and Mr.
Clinton himself unleashed a lengthy, pointed attack on Mr. Sanders at an appearance on Sunday evening.
The
defeat also powerfully captured the way the Democratic electorate has
changed since the Clintons held power in the 1980s in Arkansas; in the
1990s in the White House; and through early 2009, when Mrs. Clinton gave
up her Senate seat in New York to become secretary of state. The
party’s restive left wing is exerting much more influence, partly
because of anger at the financial industry and establishment politics
after the Great Recession. Mrs. Clinton, in turn, has always come across
as a pragmatist more than a dreamer, and she rarely intones a vision of
America that is broadly inspiring.
“That
lack of idealism is what allowed Obama to beat her, and it’s giving
Bernie room to grow,” said Dan Payne, a Democratic strategist in Boston
who supports Mrs. Clinton.
The
unaffiliated New Hampshire voters who participated in both party
primaries, and who supported Mr. Trump and Mr. Sanders in sizable
numbers, appear to have found those candidates’ anti-establishment
messages to be an asset.
Mr.
Trump disregarded the time-honored New Hampshire traditions of
lavishing personal attention on voters. Instead, he flew in and out of
the state on his private jet when the weather cooperated, held raucous
rallies, and won support by faulting immigrants who entered the country
illegally for crime and job losses, proposing a temporary ban on Muslims
to prevent terrorism. He may have held fewer events here than any other
Republican except Ben Carson, but his voters cared little.
His
approach here, and his success, have left New Hampshire’s Republican
leaders, who jealously guard their first-in-the-nation status, both
perplexed and appalled.
“By
name, I only know five people supporting Donald Trump,” John H. Sununu,
a former governor, said Tuesday. “So I say I cannot understand this
electorate.”
