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Born. To Bobby Darin, 25, Bronx-born groaner (Mack the Knife), and Sandra Dee, 19, blonde, bubbly cinema starlet (Tammy Tell Me True): their first child, a son; in Hollywood...
...came also cattle which had been fed on 'whiskey-malt,' the refuse of the breweries, and had become what the men called 'steerly'-which means covered with boils that were full of matter. It was a nasty job killing these, for when you plunged your knife into them they would burst and splash foulsmelling stuff into your face." The Jungle came out in 1905; in 1906 Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act. Said Sinclair: "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach...
...HOUSEWARES: Old French decanters ($7 up), chafing dishes (from $15), wine racks (from $10), English pewter, Danish salad bowls and cheese boards. There are plenty of electrical gadgets for pushbutton minds; electric can openers and knife sharpeners (around $29.95), bun warmers ($9.95), silver polishers ($29.95), even electric pepper mills...
...well. In Unterwasser, a Red Cross social worker showed the four wide-eyed Tibetan women how to scrub the walls and launder their clothes with newfangled soap; a Swiss cook taught them patiently to prepare Swiss-German food. There are also educators and schoolbooks, lessons in how to use knife and fork and in how to ski, a sport unknown in Tibet. The men have jobs, ranging from digging ditches to carpentry to house painting...
Author Hoving's permissiveness extends to the debatable question of the continental versus the "zigzag" (American) system of knife-and-forkery; Hoving, like Social Mannerists Post and Vanderbilt, endorses the continental form (right hand for the knife, left for the fork, and no switching between bites), ends on a promising note. "When you know the rules," says Hoving, "you can start breaking them...