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...UNIVERSITY of Arizona astronomer Roger Angel swung by a Tucson pottery shop to pick up some firebricks for a backyard kiln. Then he purchased some glass ovenware at a nearby hardware store. A few days later, he materialized in a graduate student's doorway, brandishing a couple of Pyrex custard dishes melted to a misshapen blob. "We can make telescope mirrors out of this!" Angel exclaimed. Thus began a monumental and quixotic effort to reinvent the central light-gathering surface of the telescope, from its initial design to its final polishing...
...opened in 1912, the cafeterias served 400,000 customers a day at their peak in the early 1950s. Famous actresses, well-heeled businessmen and just plain folks plunked their coins into glass-and-chrome dispensers to feast on such fare as Boston baked beans, macaroni and cheese and coconut-custard...
WHRB will kick off the celebration of its 50 years of radio airplay tonight, remembering some of its highlights--the appearance of unconventional rock bands such as the Screaming Custard, interviews with celebrities such as Winston Churchill, and the origins of its famous music orgies...
Fast-forward to the summer of 1990: F.H.'s grandson is becalmed in his office, postponing chores by reading the New York Times food page. Abruptly, one of memory's custard pies sails out of a time warp and hits me in the snoot. The Times describes a fine restaurant, called the Tapawingo, serving cassoulet of morels, and veal with forest fettucine, dinners $22 to $32 with first course and salad, in -- SPLAT! -- Ellsworth, Mich. My reaction is dismay. Ellsworth doesn't belong in the Times. It belongs in my earliest memories, where it has been for the 40 years...
...dingbat Peters wheeling down a dirt road, radio blasting, with funny money blowing out of the back of the car. She has one foot on the dashboard, and bubble-gum bubbles are popping out of her funny little rosebud mouth, right there in the middle of her funny big custard-pie face...