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...smelt takes its name not from its peculiar cucumber-like smell but from Anglo-Saxon smeolt ("bright and shining"). It is a small, slender fish with a silvery belly and an olive-green back. Fried like a doughnut in deep fat, it is a distinct delicacy. When smelts are running, they run in enormous schools, can be easily scooped up in hand nets. Last week 20,000 curious tourists were welcomed with open arms by the 15,000 natives of Escanaba, Mich, for that city's fourth annual smelt jamboree...
...would be willing to bet my head against the hole in a doughnut that it is not transferred...
Married. Mrs. Emily Flamm Gilchrist, 70, who seven years ago inherited $2,000,000 from her lumberman husband, William A. Gilchrist; to Roe Wells, 50, $25,000-per-year vice president of Doughnut Corp. of America; in Valparaiso, Ind. Said he: "Mrs. Wells and I have agreed to pool our interests and carry on. We shall be very happy working together...
...Doughnut shaped bath soap, to be worn on a cord around a bather's neck to keep it from escaping...
...first (1903), Jimmy next (1905), and Bossprankster Harry last (1908). Their concocted whimsy extends offstage. They attended the Hollywood premiere of Wee Willie Winkie in kilts, once cooled their feet in a Beverly Hills municipal fountain. Sojourning in Manhattan, they like to sit in Lindy's, eating bagels (doughnut-shaped hard bread) and watch Broadway...