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...pencil tops, and a brown bat swings malevolently from the ceiling, suspended by a nearly invisible wire. All look amazingly lifelike, preserved by Meryman's "freeze-dry" process and apparently able to stay in good condition indefinitely. The fox was shot by Meryman when it invaded his hen house. "He accounted for 27 hens," says Meryman, "before I freeze-dried him." The other specimens were collected along the shoulders of busy Southern highways. Says Meryman: "I'm always looking for well-preserved traffic casualties...
Hard-Boiled. In Lucedale, Miss., Lovonia Jones Box was fined $522 after police found eight pint bottles of moonshine under a setting hen in her yard...
...beginning of Endless Road, Peter Fletcher has already lost a great deal more than a weekend. A onetime athlete, he has lost his physical fitness. He has lost his job as a columnist. He has left his wife Mary, an odd mother-hen type who needed Peter's boozed-up dependence on her as much as he needed booze. The only thing he has not lost is the enduring friendship of Jon Baker, a fellow booze-fighter of yesteryear who has become an apostle of Alcoholics Anonymous...
...leading islander is Colonel Baker, retired and gardening his life away in a country cottage. His bossy wife, who is aware of him only as an irritation, is faithful to her housework and TV, but her real occupation is being a worry-hen about her sons-and there is plenty to worry about...
Many famed restaurants have joined the march to the freezer. Manhattan's gilt-edged Chambord puts out a full French line, including bouillabaisse à la Marseillaise, soufflé Grand Marnier, and Cornish Hen Perigourdine with sherry, truffles, foie gras, wild rice and brandy. Schrafft's has put on sale beef Burgundy with noodles, and chicken and mushroom pie with cheese crust. Other processors are selling kangaroo-tail soup, frozen bagels, sukiyaki, enchiladas, shish kebab and frozen chicken curry...