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Fricker now spends his time thinking up exotic German dishes for his Stillman patients. Dumb waiters in the Holyoke Center now carry such delicacies as Rahm schnitzel, Beef Stroganoff, Wlenerschnitzel, vol au vent and falsan aux asperges to hungry patients. Fricker also cooks for Holyoke's tenth floor dining rooms...
On Tour. Back in Washington next afternoon. Jackie Kennedy, along with some 45 million other Americans, settled down to watch herself in action as guide to CBS's Charles Collingwood on an hour-long White House tour that had been taped a month before. She had refused the services...
Bathed in Elegance. The upper classes were fascinated by pictures which, like the modern photograph, could be put into albums. They bought engravings of London scenes, of romantic ruins, of exotic places they had seen on their travels, and of their own stately homes. This led to a longing for...
To post-Hitler German youth, Jews are almost as exotic as Javanese. Karl Marx,* editor of the Jewish weekly Allgemeine Wochenzeitung (circ. 48,000), reports that students swarm to him on his lecture tours, tell him in awe: "You are the first Jewish person we have ever met." In sharing...
He is 6 ft. tall, and his mature weight has generally varied from 220, which he calls "slim," to an alltime high of 284. His neck size is 19, and the nose cone has yet to leave Canaveral that could not parachute back to earth dangling from one of Jackie...