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...Ostrich Eggs & Vanilla Beans. When Founder Samuel Stillman Pierce opened his first store in Boston in 1831, he vowed: "I may not make money, but I shall make a reputation." He made both, partly by provisioning Yankee clipper ships for ocean voyages and partly by coddling his celebrity customers (among them: John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster). In later years, the company hired horse-drawn sleighs to deliver groceries when snowstorms closed roads to auto traffic, and maintained a well-drilled corps of salesmen who would phone housewives at appointed hours. They not only suggested menus but answered such arcane questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Laird of the Epicurean Manner | 6/23/1967 | See Source »

...sour cream, drops her ostrich tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poets: The Second Chance | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

Speaking to the H.R Young Republicans, Findley, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, declared that "our present policy toward China has become blind and unrealistic -- in fact, ostrich-like" and urged better communication with the Chinese...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Findley Becomes First Republican in Congress Urging Ties with China | 5/8/1967 | See Source »

However, you are to be congratulated on the illustration included in your review -the finest photograph of an indignant ostrich ever taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 5, 1967 | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

Volcanoes & the Minotaur. At La Ronde, Expo's 135-acre amusement area, there is an aquarium with penguins, a Pioneer Land where gun fights take place every hour, a "safari" through a man-made jungle (where kids can ride on an elephant, a zebra, an ostrich or a llama). For thrill seekers, there is the Gyrotron, a $3,000,000 contraption that allows tourists to strap themselves into miniature rail cars and then be hurtled through a maze of environments that begins with a terrifyingly realistic "orbit" among the stars, careens on through the hellish jaws of a live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expositions: Man & His World | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

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