Word: cooks
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Tides & Tables. With the U.S. yearning for spring, the storm was of the crudest kind. Electrical failures shut off the power in more than 1,500,000 homes and institutions. More than a dozen people in Maryland were poisoned by carbon monoxide when they tried to cook indoors on charcoal burners. Families on New Jersey's shore had to leave their homes as high tides rammed the coast. In Sag Harbor, N.Y., an 82-year-old man left his house to seek help, drowned in tidewater in his own front yard...
Lyndon Johnson's mental alarm clock went off just before 7 o'clock. He swept his long black hair out of his eyes, smoothed it over the thinning area on top of his head. Then he pushed the bedside buzzer for Cook Zephyr Wright to bring up his tomato juice, pink Texas grapefruit, venison sausage (made from a deer Johnson shot last fall) and half a cup of Sanka. He devoured his breakfast, along with the latest Congressional Record, its ink still wet enough to stain his fingers. By 7:30 he was in the bathroom, working...
Born in South Bend, Ind., Stein originally set out to be a doctor, got an M.D. at Chicago's Rush Medical College in 1921, studied ophthalmology at the University of Vienna, wrote a learned treatise ("The Use of Telescopic Spectacles and Distil Lensen") after he returned to Cook County Hospital as a resident. He organized a band in which he played the fiddle, made bookings for other bands for a fee, finally teamed up with William R. Goodheart Jr., who later retired, to found M.C.A. as a band-booking agency in 1924. This sideline proved so profitable that...
...critical heart disease for more than 13 years; in Meredith's phrase, she is "a dying something never dead." In death's slow embrace she remains beautiful and virginal, tended in the peaceful New England countryside by a dedicated aunt and a Negro cook. This sunnily funereal household is subsidized out of the thin pocketbook of Annette's husband James, who shares one room in New York with his mistress and dreams of the day when death will free him to marry her. When the mistress becomes pregnant, James resolves to divorce Annette, but face to face...
...record of the sweet served to finish this meal," writes Cook O'Brien regretfully, "has apparently been lost...