Word: horseradishes
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...President Ford's idea of a taste treat a dollop of horseradish sandwiched between two thick slabs of Bermuda onion? Was a certain Southern Congressman pinched for making an illegal proposition to a plainclothes Washington policewoman? Did Ethel Kennedy playfully run her white convertible over the curb in front of the Senate Office Building and nearly cancel Pedestrian Roger Mudd...
...story's people, all outlandish, pop from the author's head fully jig-sawed. There is old Geraty, a buffalo-like giant addicted to Japanese horseradish, who once ran a Chinese pornographic movie parlor. There is the former Baron Kikuchi, a Japanese who converted to Judaism and became a rabbi. Quin appears as a shadowy cuckold who ran a circus in Shanghai at the war's outset and orchestrated the murder of its entire company during a performance. Maeve Quin, his glad-glanded wife, is an aerialist who made her final somersault into the lights with...
...dangerous-a truism that Americans are rediscovering in a rather special sense during the 1968 presidential campaign. They are doing so with the help of George Wallace. The Alabamian is gaining so many votes, says one happy Southern Congressman, that he is now as strong as "50 acres of horseradish." Other Congressmen are appalled at the possible result: the Wallace phenomenon may throw the election into the House of Representatives. The outcome could foil most voters' wishes and upset the two-party system in Congress. To House Majority Whip Hale Boggs, "the idea is absolute anarchy...
...corporation now active abroad was even organized, Heinz had important foreign sales. That early phase of the company's operation began the day in 1885 when Founder Henry Heinz walked into London's Fortnum & Mason, sold Britain's most prestigious grocer a line of Heinz horseradish, pickles, and ketchup. From that beginning, Heinz eventually established a thriving British company, ended up selling its 57 varieties in 150 nations. The company sold so well, in fact, that it pushed British per-capita annual consumption of baked beans to 11.5 Ibs. -twice the U.S. input. Foreign sales increased steadily...
...Hunting Horseradish. He is fond of citing the state's illustrious sons and daughters, mentioning the only Hoosier President, Benjamin Harrison, in the same breath as Marjorie Main, Jimmy Hoffa, John Dillinger and Eugene Debs. He talks familiarly of Booth Tarkington, remarks that James Whitcomb Riley was "more of a devotee of the glass than the typewriter," and notes that "we had Theodore Dreiser, who wrote Sister Carrie and scared everybody in Indiana right out of their wits." He brings up that other literary figure, one James Buchanan Elmore, author of the lines: "My wife has gone ahunting/ Horseradish...