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Working under the supervision of a dean of labor, they bake the community's bread, man the local tavern (still bone dry), learn to turn out such dishes as chicken flakes in bird's nest, eggnog pie, toasted Brazil-nut pie and ginger biscuits. They weave bedspreads, napkins and tablecloths, produce a vast assortment of wooden furniture. Though no student graduates without a thorough grounding in the liberal arts. Berea regards its work program as an essential part of its education. Whether black or white, foreign or native, every boy or girl must put in at least...
...jazz-happy '20s. When she launched Newsday on alligator-shaped Long Island in 1940, Publisher Patterson set out to violate every canon of sedate, well-mannered and deadly dull suburban journalism. Instead of loading her paper with name-dropping personal columns, handouts, accounts of tea parties and bake sales and local news that would offend no one, Newsday ran sprightly and irreverent stories, headlined everything from PROTECTED GAMBLING IN SUFFOLK COUNTY to SOCIALITE TOSSED INTO CELL...
According to Correspondent Alex Campbell, a South African Bushman will eat anything from a mouse to an elephant. In the Okovanggo swamps of Bechuanaland in 1951, he sampled a Bushman meal: "They produced an elephant foot, spiced with cloves, nutmeg, salt and pepper, wrapped in wet clay and baked for five hours in a scooped-out anthill. The result was a pleasant, jellylike dish which tasted like baked oyster. While waiting for it to bake we had an hors d'oeuvre which tasted like popcorn-fried flying ants and wild honey...
...Liberace phenomenon resembles earlier crazes over Frank Sinatra and Johnnie Ray. But Liberace fans are more likely to belong to the two-way stretch than to the bobby-sox crowd. Women mob him wherever he goes. They bake cakes for him. They knit for him (one fan contributed a pair of socks embroidered with small pianos). Last year they sent him 27,000 valentines. One grandmother and her daughter have been following him for months from town to town. Says his brother George, who conducts the background music on his show: "He's got musical hypnosis." Says his manager...
...baking dish, place a layer of rolled cracker crumbs, moisten well with a medium cream sauce. Add a layer of grated American cheese, a layer of grated pimentos and a layer of grated hard-boiled eggs. Repeat layers, top with buttered crumbs. Bake until pudding is heated thoroughly...