The nurses put a record on the great tubalike phonograph.

A drought hinders the growth of plants.

So reads the new slogan painted on the letterboards of New York City omnibuses.

But when I got to Anita Bryant′s pound cake, I stopped looking. Her recipe is my favorite so far. The cream isn′t quite authentic—real pound cakes are supposed to contain only butter, sugar, eggs and flour—but it does make the cake′s texture meltier.