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When it came time to repair the wood casing, Randall says she received a call from the artisan who was unaware of the old Harvard tradition of flinging butter onto the "Great Hall" ceiling...
...understand; there are all these little 2 by 2 squares [of uneven color],'" Randall says the artisan asked. "I was like, 'Yeah, butter pats...
...given away. On its shelves, Deseret-brand laundry soaps manufactured by the Mormon Church nestle next to Deseret-brand canned peaches from the Mormon cannery in Boise, Idaho. Nearby are Deseret tuna from the church's plant in San Diego, beans from its farms in Idaho, Deseret peanut butter and Deseret pudding. There is no mystery to these goods: they are all part of the huge Mormon welfare system, perhaps the largest nonpublic venture of its kind in the country. They will be taken away by grateful recipients, replaced, and the replacements will be taken away...
...seat Elvis Presley's Memphis, a theme restaurant and nightclub that opened last week in Memphis (opening act: folksinger Jewel, "the kind of entertainer," an EPE spokesman maintained, "Elvis would have selected were he alive today"). The company hopes that similar clubs, all serving the deep-fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches Elvis adored (as well as more healthful fare), will follow in Orlando, Fla., and New York City--not to mention an entire Elvis mini-resort in Las Vegas...
...Royces, Ferraris and Stutz Blackhawks; bought a 96-passenger Convair 880 jet for $250,000, then spent $800,000 to have it customized, a project that included gold-plated seat-belt buckles and a queen-size bed. He once took a $16,000 flight to Denver to buy peanut-butter sandwiches...