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...pier-six brawl in Syracuse, N.Y., Carmen Basilio. 28. sharp-featured son of a Canastota. N.Y.. onion farmer, spent twelve rounds trading punches with Welterweight Champion Tony De Marco before he battered the stubborn Bostonian senseless and stumbled off with the title...
Swimming Crawfish. For 60 crawfish prepare a bouillon with 2 cups dry white wine, ½cup cognac, 3 large carrots and one large onion cut in thin slices, 1 teaspoon salt, a pinch of cayenne and 3 chopped shallots. Boil covered for ½ hour. Then put in crawfish and boil for 10 minutes, turning them about three or four times. Serve hot, cold or tepid...
...roasted to crackling brown and served in a sea of tangy juices. After 14½ steak-starved years, the government lifted the ration on meat, and Britain's red-blooded trenchermen were declared free and independent of such gustatory travesties as mock goose (potatoes flavored with sage and onion), Egyptian pie (baked lentils and onions), veal cutlet made of rabbit, and toad-in-the-hole (sausages and batter...
...sleek little (39 ft.) yawl Malay had finished the Newport-Bermuda race, "the thrash to the onion patch," the night before. Now she edged through Two Rock Passage into Hamilton Harbor. A small sloop drew abeam, and the Malay's skipper called across the stretch of water: "Who won the race?" The small-boat sailors slid past the yawl's counter and read the name on the stern. Their astonished answer drifted back: "Malay...
...cracked bed of the Rio Grande River filled with a boiling torrent, and in the flat lands of the lower valley, 4,000 people were driven from their homes by the rising waters. Three cities and towns were flooded; the brown tide covered 50,000 acres. Most of the onion crop in the lower Rio Grande valley, a quarter of the tomato crop and 10% of the cantaloupes were ruined. Health officers labored day and night against the threat of typhoid, by week's end had inoculated 60,000 people...