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Writers, too, earn an onion. There was a time, Knopf recalls mournfully, when editors were not compelled to "conduct elaborate correspondence courses" for "would-be and indeed practicing novelists." The fellows are unreliable, snorts Knopf: "We pay substantial advances for books that never get written." Worst of all, they are self-important: "You can offer a grade A milk and a grade B if you are in the dairy business, but authors are vain in a way that cows...
...Syracuse, crag-faced Carmen Basilio, 30, the graduate onion farmer who is now welterweight champion, saw no point in waiting for the crowd. He had no time for small talk, either. Over the door of the dingy Main Street Gym where he plugs away at his own grim routine of training, a cardboard sign warns the curious that visitors are unwelcome. The only fight that Carmen is worrying about is the fight with Robinson; the only strategy he is planning is to wade in punching. Each in his own way, the welterweight brawler and the big-talking middleweight boxer...
...color of earth, and had a texture not unlike a truffle, apart from one raw reddish gash in it. It gave off an odor as of clay newly dug; also a pungent whiff of onion and of oil of geranium...They stood frozen before this object that drew and yet repelled them, as if a uniform reptillian mass should suddenly uncoil before their eyes and rear a dozen snaky heads. It was death's absolute presence that confronted them...
FUTURES TRADING in onions will be banned if Agriculture Department investigation finds that illegal manipulations caused recent price gyrations. Probers are suspicious because March futures, which will be traded until March 22, plummeted to 85? this month from $2.05 on Feb. 1. National Onion Association wants the ban, and bills calling for it go before House hearings next month...
Being 43 and a male, I never have been pregnant [as Judy Holliday is in Full of Life-Feb. 18]. However, the peanut butter and onion sandwich is one of my favorites. The peanut butter cuts the strength of the onion, and the onion cuts the dry ness of the peanut butter...