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...chocolate. In New England, it was plum pudding and frosty trees. In the German immigrant towns of Wisconsin, the old men drank cognac and Löwenbräu and listened damp-eyed to old recordings of long-gone Rhineland carillons. In Georgia, the holiday mornings began with bacon, eggs, red-eye gravy, biscuits, grits, deer sausage, fried catfish, cornbread, buttermilk, waffles, French toast, hotcakes and heaps of fruit. In the afternoon the womenfolk gathered in the big kitchen to prepare scalloped oysters and smoked turkey, fried chicken and black-eyed peas (cooked 24 hours), pot roast and cracklin...
...main hope lies in Charlie Ufford, soccer and tennis captain, who finished runner-up in last season's Intercollegiate Individual Championships. Ufford played number three last year, but will move up into the first position for this season. Behind him, in the second spot, is Captain Jim Bacon. Bacon went to Chicago last February and played in the Crimson's championship victory at number four in the absence of Joe Clark. His regular '50-'51 spot was five...
...just thinking for half an hour-it's a time when my objectivity is at its best." Then he plunges into a furious round of keep-fit exercises (25 pushups, 25 knee bends, ten laps in the pool), downs his standard breakfast (half a grapefruit, five strips of bacon, tea), slips into an Ivy League grey suit (sometimes flashing it up with his gold cuff links that are shaped like tiny T-38 jets), and pilots a company Cadillac to headquarters...
...juice," Schwartz explains); and in a variety of new-fashioned forms, including a Gourmet Garlic Burger, at 50 cents ("The students at Harvard sort of helped create the demand for that," says Schwartz laconically). And, then, each burger-be it a Harvard Double Burger, at 80 cents, or a Bacon Cheese Burger, at 65 cents--comes with fresh cole slaw in addition to the inevitable pickle. "Everybody gives pickles and we have to be a little different, so he comes up with cole slaw." Thus, once again, Schwartz...
...prolonged the cold weather long past the change of seasons. And yet the voice that defined the age and spoke one of its most famous lines belongs to a rationalist: "I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends,'' wrote Francis Bacon to Lord William Cecil, "for I have taken all knowledge to be my province...