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...eater" who took the dead man's sins upon himself by eating a loaf of bread and drinking a bowl of beer over the corpse. Embalmers, whose craft the book covers in the most intimate detail, advanced steadily (one notable medieval corpse was preserved in olive catsup). It was Leonardo Da Vinci, the father of modern embalming, who developed the method of intravenous injection which was adopted in 17th century England. There were setbacks, of course. One Richard Hull, of Scotland, in accordance with a notion that on Judgment Day the world will be tipped the other way round...
With Gravy. In Chicago, Restaurateur Gus Scopos, arrested on assault charges after pouring hot grease over Customer Kenneth Carpenter, had the charges dismissed when he testified: "He ordered one hamburger-mind you, just one-then he poured a whole bottle of catsup over...
Seeing Red. In Victoria, B.C., John Gordon was sentenced to 30 days in jail for emptying a bottle of catsup on a bus driver who didn't stop when Passenger Gordon buzzed...
...Glasgow's 7,000 students piled out last week for one of the biggest rags of their undergraduate lives. Boys & girls donned dungarees, pulled on their shabbiest shirts and football jerseys. Then they crowded into the quadrangle, shouted and shoved, tossed fishheads about, along with such oddments as catsup, rotten fruit and bags of soot. They roared irreverent chants about their retiring rector: "Walter Elliot* has a big, beery nose...
...Paris, surrealist Artist Salvador Dali complained that the U.S., which he had just visited, was no place for an artist: "The light . . . is no good. The food . . . is barbaric. They just pour on the salt and pour on the tomato catsup...