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...remove the taste of the larks, ortolans, thrushes, capons, woodcocks, young turkeys, young hares, sweetbreads, ham, forcemeats, hot pâtés and fritures that had preceded it). Its completeness may be judged from the fact that it contains not only an entry for alligator pear (under avocado) but one for alligator: "The most valued parts of the reptile are the paws or flappers . . . prepared á L'américaine [or] á L'indienne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: PRESENTATION PIECES | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

...solicitously sprayed with DDT to rid them of their native gnats, mosquitoes, ants and chiggers. George Washington's white-pillared manor house was equipped with electric lights for the first time in its history. White House Chef René Verdon presided proudly over Army field kitchens that served avocado and crabmeat mimosa, poulet chasseur avec couronne de riz clamart (hunter-style chicken with rice), framboises à la crème Chantilly and petits jours secs. After dinner, the guests strolled across the lawn to rows of camp chairs, settled back for a concert by the National Symphony Orchestra (selections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: Brass & Iron | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...fossil hunter and "hooked on California Indians." But when he graduated from high school in 1941, he had no money for college ("My family has always figured the hell with education"). True worked in a shipyard, served as an aerial-gunnery instructor in World War II, acquired a small avocado ranch in the Pauma Valley. In 1953 some U.C.L.A. anthropologists interviewed local Indians, fired up True to publish archaeological papers in learned journals. In 1959 he sold part of his ranch for $10,000, let his wife and children run the rest, went off to enter U.C.L.A.'s "gifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top of the Heap | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

Starts Sunday: G. B. Shaw plus Peter Sellers plus Sophia Loren plus Alastair Sim plusplus Vittorio De Sica ought to equal something grand, zany and sparkling. But THE MILLIONAIRESS is merely routine gag comedy all too much of the time. In point of fact, this is a very dud avocado, indeed. Co-featured is a travesty of William Faulkner, plagiaristically entitled SANCTUARY. Don't expect to recognize the characters if you read the book. Lee Remick whimpers as Temple Drake, and Yves Montand is hopelessly miscast as her down and way-out croole lover. Daily from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON WEEKLY CALENDER | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...visit every country and to cover every war-at $1,000 a week plus expenses. In England Davis hobbed so intimately with the nobs that the P.M., Arthur Balfour, used to drop by at his rooms for a shank-of-the-morning snack. In Venezuela he ate his first avocado, promptly introduced the fruit to the U.S. market. In Cuba he wrote fiery dispatches that, front-paged by Hearst, helped to push the U.S. into war with Spain; and once war was declared, R.H.D.'s spectacular reports on the Rough Riders helped make T.R. a national hero. In Belgium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Richard the Literary Lion | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

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