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...came, the Italians would be competing for their jobs. Besides, in times of danger when teamwork is essential, the Italians might not understand orders. The British miners had other objections. "The reasons are stupid," said one mine union official. "Some of our men say the Italians smell-they eat garlic. Others say that they are just ice-cream merchants. Some don't like the Italians because they don't speak our language...
Radcliffe girls will eat meatless spaghetti and garlic bread tonight instead of the traditional fish...
...brash and breezy young man. Lynn White Jr. was a San Francisco minister's son who had studied at Union Theological Seminary and had taken his Ph.D. under Harvard's famed Medievalist Charles Homer Haskins. He was an expert on wine and cooking ("anything with garlic in it"), on 13th Century clocks and chivalry ("the culture of the horsy crowd"). And somewhere along the line, he had also become an unabashed expert on women's colleges...
...lives at a sanitarium outside Milan, for the past three years the victim of recurrent nervous disorders. He uses a cobweb-festooned greenhouse on the grounds as his studio. On favorable days when "the light is calm," he arranges still lifes of wild flowers, cherries, beans, clusters of garlic or withered leaves on a potting table, paints them against imaginary landscapes in paler, more wistful colors than his old gay studies of Venice and France. "They are a little sad," says De Pisis gently, "because...
...faint ray of light on the dietitian's onetime romance with Greta Garbo. "She was lonely, shy . . ." wrote Ernest Lehman. "Gayelord was gregarious, expansive and as full of self-confidence as he was of vegetable juice ... He supervised her diet, her health, her mode of living. They made garlic juice together...