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With Mustard. In Bushy Park, Middlesex, England, Billy Hudgins, 11, a sixth-grader in a U.S. Air Force elementary school, asked to write a theme on space travel, reckoned out the gastronomic requirements of an interplanetary junket: "584 ham sandwiches, 764 Coca-Colas and 407 cakes and pies...
...imposing paunch that leads Walter W. Fuller wherever he goes is a badge of long and dedicated service performed by a man who has eaten as much Kiwanis, Optimist, Lion, Eagle, Elk and DeMolay creamed peas and ham as anyone else in Detroit. Fuller belongs to all those societies and, thanks to honorary memberships, many more. But bald, indefatigably gregarious Walter Fuller, 60, is more than a mere joiner: he is also the fraternal editor of the Detroit News...
Epithalamium. In London, Susan Stranks arrived ten minutes late for her wedding to Robin Ray, explained breathlessly: "I was so nervous, I had to have a brandy and a ham sandwich." Pressed. In Vassar, Mich., the Tuscola County Pioneer-Times ran a classified ad: "Dry cleaning for delivery yesterday must be received by noon tomorrow at Clark's Cleaners...
...Ways. The rangy (6 ft. 8 in., 220 lbs.) forward with shock of wavy black hair held the ball lightly in his two ham-sized hands, then sent a set shot swishing through the hoop 28 ft. away. With that, Dolph Schayes, 31, of the Syracuse Nats last week became the first man in the history of the National Basketball Association to score 15,000 points. Before the game was over, he had raised his total to 15,013 as his team beat the Boston Celtics...
...When Alcoa pits a piece of its "New, Super-Strength Alcoa Wrap" against "ordinary wrap," it stacks the deck by seeing to it that the "ordinary wrap" is "deliberately torn and severely wrinkled," puts a dried-out ham in the ordinary wrap and a fresh ham...