Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble began when word got about that the Russians had brought a whole shipload of caviar and vodka. Actually, the Russian ship anchored in San Fran cisco Bay was there primarily for radio communication with Moscow. Some of the delegation lived aboard, and they presumably had a supply of their national food and drink. But the refreshments were incidental. Thanks to Russian secrecy about the ship, and the press's failure to check, tongues were clacking furiously when Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov arrived by plane from Washington...
...delegate in San Francisco was the Red Navy's representative, Admiral Konstantin Rodionov (see cut). The Russians holed up in the St. Francis hotel, reveled in three eggs apiece for breakfast, promptly obtained 18 shoe stamps (for some 60 delegates and consultants). A Russian ship brought quantities of caviar, vodka and champagne to be dispensed in a Pacific Heights house rented for entertainment. For the delegation's head, Foreign Commissar Molotov, the State Department had been asked to supply 1) a bullet-proof car, 2) an armed escort...
...Leipzig Herr Dr. Bundin chose to die by a method in keeping with his professional interests (he was owner of a big bazooka factory). To a caviar-and-cham-pagne banquet he invited 100 of his cronies. When the last course was eaten, the fat cigars smoked and the fine cognac gone, Herr Bundin pressed a button. He had mined the banquet hall. He and his guests were atomized into dust...
...twelve-day round of caviar and vodka, of toasts and talks, came to an end. From Moscow shrewd little Dr. Eduard Benes rode a special Soviet train to his liberated homeland...
Ticker Tape and Caviar. Wechsberg's sketches and anecdotes show that he most often found the bluebird in his own musical backyard. The characters he portrays most fondly and skilfully are such acquaintances of his musical wanderings as Maurice, an orchestra leader "who was brought up on Pernod instead of mother's milk"; Boris, a violinist who "occasionally [ate] caviar with his right hand, playing a stunning pizzicato sequence with his left" Monsieur Arnould, a music director who had something "of the jovial, placid, dignity of the bull fiddle" he once played; Franzl, an amateur pianist whose reason...