Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finished with the book and too ashamed for another round of smorgasbord. I concluded the meal with three desserts, apple crunch cake, Norwegian rosettes, and rum pudding. After lapping up the last of the rum, I forgave my Scandinavian friends for serving French pastry and said goodbye to the waiter, the dishwasher, the cold chef, the hot chef, and the just plain chefs. I paid my check, $1.50, with one dessert, and told my hostess I'd be back on May 17 when the patio would be open. The seventeenth is of course, Norwegian Independence...
Concurrent with the big change this year is the revised freshman eating plan which is designed to remedy the previously unequal distribution of visiting freshmen. The Yardlings are allowed one meal a week in each of the Houses, and consequently must attend more than one House to take advantage of their eating privileges...
...Sick Old Man. King Norodom listened to the radio playback, tucked into a square meal prepared by D'Artagnan, the best chef in Cambodia, and then got into his blue station wagon to change palaces with his parents. His father, 59-year-old Prince Suramarit, has long been his close adviser; his mother, Princess Norodom Suramarit, is a handsome woman who has long kept a sharp, appraising eye upon her royal son's dancing girls and political enemies. "I am a sick old man," proclaimed the new King, getting into the spirit of his son's abdication...
Prizefighters who retire before their brains get scrambled almost always wind up with another occupational characteristic : total recall. They can remember every minute of every fight-the amateur bouts when the gold medal or the brass watch was hocked for the price of a hot meal, the tank-town prelims, the main events when they got their turns on the big time. Ex-Middleweight Champion Rocky Graziano does even better. In his autobiography, Somebody Up There Likes Me (Simon & Schuster; $3.95), written with the help of Newsman Rowland Barber, Rocky even recalls the eye-gouging, gut-punching details...
...playing by ear," he explained, "and each Housemaster will have to make his own decision." This decision ignored the previous proposal of a 45 student limit at each meal...