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...medical shows: a crooked doctor. No new adventure hero, it seems, will be admitted to the schedule without an ethnic identity badge. ABC'S Kung Fu is a sort of Fugitive foo yung-a Chinese priest permanently on the lam in the American West of the 1870s, nonviolent but ready to zap troublemakers with the self-defense art of kung fu. The title character of NBC's Banacek (one of three rotating shows in the NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie) is not only a rugged insurance sleuth but also a walking lightning rod for Polish jokes...
...first health food called granola, made with entirely different ingredients from those used in the current product, was developed in the 1870s by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. His brother William K. Kellogg founded the well-known Battle Creek breakfast food company...
...began in the 1870s, when a young tourist named Mary Brown bought a little ivory lute in a shop in Florence. Aided by her indulgent husband, a New York banker, she went on to amass an incredibly diverse collection of no fewer than 3,390 musical instruments. By the time she died in 1918 at the age of 76, she had turned them over to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the Met, alas, had no place to display them permanently; so they moldered in storage for more than half a century...
...When World War I came, the French were ready to fight the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s. When World War II began, the Allies were ready to fight World War I. It is heartening to know, from the arguments of President Nixon and Secretary of State Rogers justifying the present level of U.S. troop strength in Europe [June 14], that we are ready for World War II if it should break out. STEVEN KOENIG Van Nuys, Calif...
...There are no decent restaurants between Houston and the trattorie of Grand Street, five blocks south; the only artists' watering place is Fanelli's, reputedly the oldest continuously operating bar in New York. It has been dispensing draft beer and meatballs to the warehouse workers since the 1870s. It shuts on the stroke of 9, leaving Prince Street (on Saturday nights) to the beery wassailing of the Daughters of Bilitis, a militant lesbian organization quartered in a loft near by. There are no boutiques, no sleazy head shops hustling Moroccan love beads made in Jersey City to tourists...