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King Edward VII refused to dine at friends' houses unless Rosa was there to cook the bland, boiled food that, in her words, "would not spill down is shirt front." Edward was an ardent patron of the hotel, which had a private entrance around the corner for merry monarchs and squires on the spree; as Prince of Wales he reputedly bankrolled his blonde, blue-eyed friend when she bought the Cavendish in 1902. "One king leads to another," she used to say. Soon the Kaiser became one of her best customers, and grew so fond of her cuisine that...
...lacrosse in the future. The '62 trio of Watts, Pete Sieglaff, and Woody Spruance dominated varsity lacrosse for three years. On the hockey rink the Class was one of the best groups at the College in the history of the sport. With Jim Dwinell, Bob Bland, Bill Beckett, Dave Morse, Dave Grannis, Chris Norris, Dean Alpine, and Tom Heintzman, its record as freshman was 18-3. The soph-dominated varsity in 1959-60 ended 17-7-1 and second in the Ivy League; in 1960-61, the Junior-dominated team won the title, as the senior-dominated team did this...
...this stuff down people's throats." Men of good will who object to all this sex and violence, he added, are promptly sacked by all three networks. This time, it was ABC-TV's boss Thomas W. Moore who spoke the industry's bland philosophy. "They come and they go," he said, "through revolving doors...
...often accused of being bland or evasive, and if we have a preference for speaking directly, so do our readers. The letters we get, as indicated by the selection we publish each week, are never lacking in forthrightness. "Brickbats for your biased baloney," begins one. And there is no reader so scornful as one whose favorite section got left out one week ("Man can't live by gluten bread alone. Where's the Art section...
Most of the nation's 2,500,000 peptic ulcer victims get a measure of relief from bland diets and from tablets and emulsions that neutralize excess stomach acid. But there are tens of thousands who have been forced to submit to more drastic treatment and have had part of their stomachs cut out. In the future, such radical operations may not be necessary. Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen and his inventive research team at the University of Minnesota Hospitals have devised a method of avoiding operations (gastrectomies) simply by giving the stomach a short, quick dose of deep freezing...