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...housewives this fall will be taught the proper way to serve all the dishes they are taught to prepare on TV's countless daytime cooking shows. Giving them expert advice on the correct fork and the perfect place setting, as well as on dozens of other subjects-from Kissing in Public to Asking Personal Questions-will be Amy Vanderbilt. the latter-day Emily Post, author of Doubleday's 700-page Complete Book of Etiquette...
Under the administration of Leverett, the fork was introduced. Until this time, the food was placed on the table and ravenous students would immediately lunge for the food and spear whatever they could. The College dandies in those days came into the dining hall with strange implements resembling stilettes stuck in their belts. These, of course, gave them a great advantage in snatching chunks of meat, until Leverett's introduction of the fork equalized the situation...
Tornadoes whirled through the deep South last week. Half a dozen separate twisters struck Vicksburg, Rolling Fork, Tulles. Dry Prong, Paradis. Ouachita City and dozens of hamlets and rural areas in Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas and Georgia, leaving an estimated 41 dead, 263 injured...
When Joseph I. Greenwell began practice in his home county, he had to be a horse & buggy doctor. It was 1900; no horseless carriage had yet been seen around New Haven, Ky., nestled in the valley of a river picturesquely named Salt Rolling Fork, and if it had, it could not have penetrated the surrounding hills...
Somehow, the busy doctor of Salt Rolling Fork found time to go to Mass each morning, to keep his knowledge up to date by attending State Medical Association meetings, and to raise a family of twelve (eight still living). Last week, for his long and devoted service to his community, the A.M.A. voted Dr. Greenwell, now 80, "the family doctor of the year...