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Circus Mogul Henry Ringling ("Bud") North was fed up. Thieves stole two coconut palm trees from his property at Bird Key, Ringling Islands, Sarasota, Fla., returned next day and stole three more...
...Williams had previously cased Tetiaroa and found it covered with thousands of coconut palms, from which he could realize a tidy profit in copra . . . and in a short time he had the island producing . . . But he quickly found that rats on Tetiaroa were determined to thwart this commercial enterprise . . . He advertised in Papeete for cats . . . and soon streams of Tahitian lads were trotting to his office and home with yowling cats in bags, crates and nets...
...dinner is no good." Chess Cakes. "These are tasty morsels of early Americana, the recipe inherited through the generations and quite generally retained exclusively within the family. I have never seen a chess cake recipe published." Fish Lolo. "Lolo is Fijian for the juice extracted from freshly grated coconut ; do not mistake it for the milk of the coconut. When I originally tasted this, the fish was raw - but it had been soaked in lemon juice for twelve hours and you would have sworn it had been cooked." Grandmother Coxey's Potato Soup. "I have never seen a printed...
...eight, on a deserted, gorgeously Technicolored island. Twelve years later, the girl (Jean Simmons) and boy (Donald Houston) are still trying to thumb a ride back to civilization. Meanwhile they have put together an attractive, cabana-type dwelling in a palm tree, a charming dinner set out of coconut shells and assorted Polynesian oddments, and some fetching tree-bark sarongs for Jean. Unfortunately for the audience, the young couple has long since run out of anything interesting to talk about...
Rationalizer. In Tucker, Ark., it took seven prison-farm waiters, instead of the usual two, to serve condemned wife-murderer Harvey Rorie the traditional last meal: fried chicken, fried catfish, mayonnaise, coconut cake, coconut pie, lemon pie, one half-gallon French fried potatoes, potato salad, one half-gallon vanilla ice cream, hot biscuits, vegetable salad, half-pound of butter, one gallon of lemonade, one half-gallon of milk, one half-gallon of strong black coffee, two packs of cigarettes, five cigars...