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...with the barbs*. . . Thus [a] fraternity man can go through [college] as one entitled not to meet more than 40 or 50 other undergraduates . . . Fraternity meals . . . are distinctive, and few Americans not confined in a state prison eat anything comparable to them as a steady diet. Consumption of ketchup along Fraternity Row is estimated at 1.27 gallons per week per brother...
Good Old Himmelfarber. What comes of it all? Says Morton: "The college fraternity is highly regarded by manufacturing and retail jewelers, dealers in seed pearls and chip diamonds, and, naturally, by the ketchup industry. [But] the principal beneficiary [is] the executive secretary ... of the national fraternity itself. It's a life job, and because no one really knows how [he] got it, there is no ready way of getting rid of him . . . [His] entire life is spent in confecting doleful yet enthusiastic appeals for funds...
...Fonda about five minutes after the RKO rooster quits yawping at the audience. The remainder of this courageous-last-stand-in-the-sage-brush saga sets out to disprove the good Colonel's thesis, a problem that involves numerous horsey charges, much sword waving, and about sixteen gallons of ketchup...
Duel Control. In Paris, Jean d'Asparbes and Rene Gaillard dueled ferociously for 15 minutes, finally appeared to cut each other's arms, later confessed that the blood oozing from their wounds was ketchup applied by face-saving seconds...
Gould likes to be interviewed, says "I make good copy." Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker treats Gould in "McSorley's Wonderful Saloon" where he spreads the fallacious (says Gould) story that Joe used to go into cafeterias and eat up a couples of bottles of ketchup, not because he liked it but because it was free...