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...headquarters of the Tournament of Roses Association. Filled with television cameras and shivering boy scouts bearing float banners every January 1, Wrigley Mansion is the year-round home to a wealth of Pasadena history. Aside from the pictures of Rose Parades past, visitors can stop by to view Tournament aficionado Gene Autry's cowboy costume, the bathroom where the President Dwight D. Eisenhower once locked himself for hours shortly before the parade's start and all the marble a fortune in Doublemint could possibly...
...Dipping raw oysters in Louisiana hot sauce may be frowned upon in fancy French restaurants, but it could keep an aficionado out of the hospital. In laboratory tests, the spicy flavoring killed four kinds of bacteria that can contaminate shellfish and that cause ailments ranging from mild diarrhea to potentially fatal blood poisoning...
...such confection aficionado was Philip H. Chang '94, who said he favored the frozen fudge cake "without a doubt." Chang said for him the event was a time for "feasting, relaxing, and celebrating [finishing his] midterms...
While the general public and the Surgeon General still hold their nose, savvy marketing men have taken note of this trend. Marvin Shanken, publisher of the successful Wine Spectator, plans to launch a quarterly magazine, Cigar Aficionado, and fill it with ratings, taste tests and snob appeal. What evidence does he have that it will succeed? "I'd like to tell you I did serious market research," he admits. "But I'm a cigar lover. I just decided to do it and hoped I could find 20,000 guys out there like...
...home was a Bastille Day celebration in which guests were invited to come dressed as their favorite subject from the French Revolution. Morris' father William, a high school English teacher and amateur musician, taught his son to read music when he was just four. His mother Maxine, a dance aficionado with a special fondness for flamenco, took him to see the Jose Greco company when he was eight. It was love at first jete. A local dance teacher gave him a scholarship, and by the time he was 13, Morris was choreographing pieces. "I'd make up these dances...