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Start brunch off with one of Shanghai's soups. The tender bean curd is mostly thick and custardy; it melts in your mouth and sits in a bath of broth. We had the sweet variety, although you can order it salted as well. Another of Shanghai's sweet soups is the sesame rice ball. This is a very sweet broth containing one-inch dough balls filled with sesame seeds. They have the consistency of bubble gum and could choke even the most flexible esophagus. Keep away! If you don't like sweet things, be careful. Shanghai really sugars their stuff...

Author: By Nancy A. Tentindo, | Title: A Short Leap Forward | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

After your soup, it's possible to order one of everything on the menu and still not go broke. Each pastry is about 40c. The sweet bean pie is an all-time favorite at Shanghai. It's a little, hard round ball with a flaky crust and filled with a creamy, sweet bean paste. By far, the best thing on the menu...

Author: By Nancy A. Tentindo, | Title: A Short Leap Forward | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...left, a Harvardman (in drag) on her right, and a ride through Cambridge in a yellow Rolls-Royce. What more could a girl want? Whether she wanted it or not, Actress Candice Bergen (Oliver's Story) got a special perfume named "Eau de Billy Joe," a gold bean pot and an award as Woman of the Year, bestowed by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Bergen, who was kicked out of the University of Pennsylvania, told the crowd: "Today, as I proudly cradle this pot, I can look back on several visits by the dean of women at Penn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 26, 1979 | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Except that not a single coffee bean existed. Companies were set up in the Caribbean and an aging freighter of Panamanian registry was bought for $700,000. The culprits proceeded to pay off anybody who might hinder the swindle. The Justice Department estimates that hundreds of thousands of dollars were paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Cuban Coffee Caper | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

LINE CHANGES: Crimson captain John Cochrane returned to action Saturday after missing Wednesday's game against Cornell because of a groin injury sustained last Monday at the Bean...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Icers Drop Another One, 4-1 | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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