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...BUI Humenuk, Harvard quarterback engineered the winning fourth-quarterfinal touchdown against Princeton last week, has been named sophomore of the week in the East. Humenuk led the drive and scored the touchdown on a well executed take play which sent Bill Grana plunging into a swarn of tackiers, none of whom noticed that Humeauk still had the ball and was safely around end for the score...
...invitation to dinner at the French embassy in London is the dream of any true gourmet. Ambassador Jean Chauvel's chef is one of the world's great cooks. A tiny (5 ft.) Tonkinese, Bui Van Han, 50, has presided over the Chauvel kitchen for 22 years, is a graduate of Paris' famed Cordon Bleu school, a master of haute cuisine. In the posts where he has cooked for the Chauvels-Paris, Bern, New York -the mere memory of his Pauppiette de Sole à la Richelieu or Cotelettes de Pigeone à l'Espagnole is enough...
...This Guy?" It was no surprise that Bui's reputation was known to Jacqueline Kennedy, who loves French cooking. But the story that the First Lady had been guilty of the unpardonable impropriety of trying to lure him away from the ambassador was as shocking as serving a sweet white wine with pink filet mignon. From London the cables buzzed with a story that Letitia Baldrige, Jackie's social secretary, had telephoned Bui one midnight last week and, in liquid French, offered him a substantial raise in pay to come to Washington and cook for the President. After...
...story hit Washington like a deflated souffle. "I never heard of this guy," complained President Kennedy. "Who is this guy?" He soon learned. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said that last December, London friends of the Kennedys had heard that Bui planned to come to the U.S. and had put out feelers on Jackie's behalf. But when the chef said he had no travel plans, explained Salinger, the negotiations ended. "Tish" Baldrige denied that she had phoned London, said she had only sent Bui a letter "to let him know what was cooking," confirming the fact that his services...
Eighteen-year-old Coed Bui Thi Oanh was one who did not survive. Voltaire and Confucius confounded her, and she failed her baccalaureate. In shame and despair, she swallowed 40 quinine pills and died. Since her death several other teen-age rots have committed suicide, and last week one enraged rot attacked his mathematics examiner in the street...