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...around. Later, Carter and other amateur cooks dredged the fish in corn meal, deep fried the catch over open coals for 15 minutes in boiling peanut oil (of course), piled it into brown paper bags to absorb the fat and then dished it up with hush puppies, coleslaw and home-grown tomatoes...
They finally got me... John Adamson, find him"−had resulted in the arrest of Adamson. More significantly, they had ensured the first major statewide investigation of the corruption that has enriched home-grown and imported conmen, including Mafiosi, while bilking land buyers of more than $500 million since the mid-1960s...
...doubt that the Mafia had ordered Bolles' assassination. Said a Department of Justice expert on organized crime: "The gangsters are smart enough to know that getting rid of a reporter only causes more trouble than the reporter could stir up in the first place." Arizona authorities finger home-grown mobsters as more likely to commit such an act. They suggest that, despite his apparent loss of interest, Bolles may have been close to linking some big names to illegal schemes. Phoenix Police Lieutenant Jack Bentley told TIME Correspondent William F. Marmon Jr.: "Bolles had reams of stuff...
...Home-Grown Product. The orchestra's popularity on tour is more than matched at home in Salt Lake City, where its twice-monthly concerts at the 5,200-capacity Mormon Tabernacle are always sold out. In December voters proved their affection by passing an $8.7 million bond issue that will build a home for the orchestra. For the past 30 years, the Mormons have allowed the orchestra free use of the Tabernacle, the famed meetinghouse built in the 1860s under the eye of Brigham Young. The edifice has been a mixed blessing: it has no lobby (latecomers must wait...
...Home-grown high school stars Hughes and Trainor's blades have hit the Causeway Street ice many times before, and both consider that a distinct advantage. Hughes, the Crimson's top point scorer during the season, says that "You' get used to the Garden. Your parents, friends and people that have followed you during your career are all there. It's a comfortable feeling...