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...mainstays of country cooking; it does not often land on three-star-restaurant menus. Yet in all its rural and urbanized forms, ranging from quiche to pasty and pitta to pizza, it can be a one-dish meal for all seasons, with all seasonings. Anna Teresa Callen, an Italian-born cookery writer and teacher who raises her dough in Manhattan, has the pie squared. In The Wonderful World of Pizzas, Quiches and Savory Pies (Crown; $14.95), she leads a cook's tour of pastry, piquant fillings and their origins. Some of her recipes inevitably show up in other books...
Some of the dishes captured by Callen are famous but hard to find outside of country cottages and inns. And they can be quite elegant. Torta Pasqualina, the Italian Easter pie from Liguria, is made with 33 layers of dough to symbolize Christ's age at his death. And there is Beautiful Aurora's Pillow, a pastry puffed up by the immortal Brillat-Savarin that combines pheasant, veal, pork, foie gras, Cognac and truffles, which might be accompanied by pinaattiohukaiset, a Finnish spinach pancake that is far easier to eat than pronounce...
Despite their shortcomings, the Saudi officials at SAMA are no soft touch. Says Michael Callen, who is managing director of the Saudi American Bank, a Riyadh-based affiliate of New York's Citibank: "A lot of borrowers think they've got a bank here run by people who ride camels. But the Saudis are tough and sophisticated. The foreign advisers may do the studies, but the Saudis make the decisions." One sign of tight Saudi control at SAMA: no telex can be wired from headquarters without a Saudi signature...
Married. Gloria Marie Callen, 20, beauteous U.S. backstroke champion, holder of 31 national swimming records, Barnard College Junior; and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Herbert Erskine Jones Jr., 23, 1942 Princeton crew captain, now in the submarine service; in Manhattan...
...washed away. In Rotterdam two years ago, Holland's young Cor Kint set four world's backstroke records: 100 yards, 100 meters, 150 yards, 200 meters. Her record-breaking time for 100 yards is 1:05.1-4.7 sec. faster than the U.S. record set by glamorous Gloria Callen last spring...