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...herb craze is directly linked to Americans' greatly heightened interest in cooking. No self-respecting cook would be without at least the culinary big four-thyme, basil, parsley and oregano-to which most gourmets would add rosemary, savory, sage, saffron, sassafras, tarragon, mint, chives, dill, lemon verbena, marjoram, fennel, sorrel, chervil, coriander, cumin, caraway and celery seed. From ajowan to zedoary, there are hundreds of other herbs available, in 17th century Herbalist John Parkinson's phrase, "for use and delight." To the delight of the vast army of health-food enthusiasts who use herbs, most of them...
...Messick, 69, after revealing that Brenda Starr, girl reporter and glamorous comic-strip heroine in 150 newspapers, was finally going to be married. Though she accepted the proposal of the ever-faithful Larry Nichols last week, Brenda will probably end up at the altar in November with the dashing Basil St. John, her boy friend of 35 years, revealed Creator Messick. "After all, Brenda has been everywhere and done everything, but she's still a virgin. In fact, she only got a belly button five or six years...
...Conan Doyle's stories. There are also striplings who claim, in their innocence, that Peter Cushing's impersonation of the Great Gumshoe in the 1960s was quite acceptable. But anyone who was around in the 1940s knows that the detective's only authorized dramatic representative was Basil Rathbone.* With his incisive features and voice, Rathbone was one of the few actors of his time who actually appeared capable of complex deductive reasoning. As for Nigel Brace's Dr. Watson, he was every bit the equal of Rathbone's Holmes. No one in the history...
...still deal in original sin," says a European arms trader. That somewhat mystical remark typifies the reputation of the arms trade, both within and without its own ranks. Arms salesmen apparently can never quite get over the fact that they are the heirs of Sir Basil Zaharoff, the archetypal death merchant who gave the trade its bad name. Bribing, cheating, lying fluently in eight languages and playing upon nations' fears of their neighbors, Zaharoff-as chief salesman for Britain's Vickers company-amassed a huge fortune by selling weapons to both sides in the Boer War, Balkan conflicts...
...Like Sir Basil, today's salesmen sometimes try to fill their order books by playing one nation against the other. "What I like doing," admitted a European arms salesman visiting Colombia, "is selling one weapon here in Bogota and then going off to Caracas to sell them the antidote." The most successful modern practitioners of this ploy seem to be the fleet-footed French, who first sold the Exocet antiship missile to Peru's leftist dictatorship in 1973, then leaked the news to neighboring Chile, whose rightist leaders became so jittery that they too bought the missile...