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...ordered his advisers to eat this bivalve regularly as "brain food.") Though it is as expensive as beefsteak today, seafood can be stretched in astonishing ways, and Spear prescribes 29 fish soups and stews that elongate budgets while widening nostrils. For the more extravagant, two of her finny finest: shrimp with melon in kirsch, and the New Orleans oyster loaf known as la Médiatrice, which errant husbands used to bring home to placate spouses after a night on the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Well-Laden Table of Cookbooks | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...former all-Ivy quarterback remembers the regionally televised, 45-26 whipping of first-place Brown as his finest moment. "I didn't know if I was going to play a half-hour before game time. As it turns out, I had the best day of my life. Everything worked perfectly; it was so easy. I hardly worked up a sweat...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Whatever happened to . . . | 11/22/1980 | See Source »

...merely bare bulbs. In place of lighting changes, Drury ingeniously uses an ironic recording of a public relations tape for Mount Holyoke. The monotone on the tape describes the college with all the functional appeal of a vacuum cleaner salesman and the pretentiousness of a sommelier enumerating his finest crus...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Not Just Folks | 11/19/1980 | See Source »

Linsley was the next Harrier in at 53rd, a respectable performance but not her best. Next were Gallagher, little Wiley McCarthy, and freshman Anita Diaz, in 63rd, 124th, and 144th respectively. Each rose to the challenge of national competition and ran her finest race of the season. For McCarthy, who's spent most of the fall battling injuries, it was a gratifying way to end the season. For Diaz, whose mother made the trip out from Chicago, it earned her a proud parent and a dinner for the team on the dockside of beautiful Puget Sound...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Harriers Shine in Rain-Soaked Seattle | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

Last year her output tailed off to 14 goals, but the team enjoyed its finest season ever, with a 15-1-1 record, an Ivy League title, and a share of the first-ever Eastern Championship with Cortland State...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Sue St. Louis | 11/14/1980 | See Source »

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