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...cook. No leg of venison can compare with a simple leg of mutton prepared in the following manner. Eight days in advance you will cover the leg of mutton with the marinade called Baume Samaritain, composed of wine-old Burgundy, Beaune or Chambertin-and virgin olive oil. Into this balm, to which you have already added the usual condiments of salt, pepper, bay leaf, thyme, beside an atom of ginger root, put a pinch of cayenne, a nutmeg cut into small pieces, a handful of crushed jumper berries, and lastly a dessertspoon of powdered sugar (effective as musk in perfumery...
...father. He has married and has a son of his own. He has lived well enough from his own earnings as a part-time author and translator, and from his father's royalties. His memoirs, written with candor and simplicity, are free of bitterness. But even the balm of time cannot erase from Author Holland's story the cruel fact that "my life has been one of concealment and repression...
Died. Aw Boon Haw, 72, fabulously wealthy Hong Kong Chinese (donations to charity alone: $20 million) of a heart ailment; in Honolulu. Son of a Rangoon herb dealer, genial Philanthropist Haw parlayed a patent medicine named Tiger Balm into an Asian empire embracing hotels, breweries, factories and a string of newspapers; spent his money building more than 300 schools and hospitals (his announced goal: 1,100), promoting Chinese nationalism (he gave the Chungking government $4,000,000 to aid in the war against Japan) and ornamenting his showpiece estates in Hong Kong and Singapore...
...Truman order protecting FBI loyalty files from unauthorized persons as McCarthy. When a fundamental moral issue as McCarthyism arises, it is ignored. No one, as yet, has measured the loss of reputations in dollars and cents. So, McCarthy's attacks were estimated in terms of efficiency. His action was balm to inertia-minded conservatives who like nothing better than a little motion, concentric as it may be, just as a change of pace. The present American conservative, unlike the British conservative to whom constitutionality and civil liberty are first considerations, needs a Constitutionality and civil liberty are first considerations, needs...
...managing editor of the Alumni Bulletin for eight years, Bentinck-Smith had to ward off irate alumni who complained about Harvard's teams, its academic freedom policy, or its inhospitality to old grads. The answers he gives his fellow commuter are paraphrases of the balm he has dispensed through the columns of the Bulletin and to the many visitors to his office. Bentinck-Smith was evidently effective in this missionary work, for in February President Pusey appointed him as Special Assistant to the President...