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...Okovanggo swamps of Bechuanaland in 1951, he sampled a Bushman meal: "They produced an elephant foot, spiced with cloves, nutmeg, salt and pepper, wrapped in wet clay and baked for five hours in a scooped-out anthill. The result was a pleasant, jellylike dish which tasted like baked oyster. While waiting for it to bake we had an hors d'oeuvre which tasted like popcorn-fried flying ants and wild honey...
...Great World That Lies Before You. The members of the class of 1929 took off for a summer in Europe or a season of sailing with all the seriousness of a group of children setting out on a picnic. For, the world of June, 1929 was, if not an oyster, at least a picnic, a beautifully tranquil, world in which happy boys and girls romped under a gentle sun while the stock market rose in an always ascending curve...
Dawalibi, 50, an oyster-smooth politician who suggests a corpulent Fu Manchu, is a man of pronounced dislikes (among them: Jews, Britons, Americans). In World War II he worked in Berlin for a time with the pro-Nazi Mufti of Jerusalem. He professes not to fear Russia: "The Arabs would prefer a thousandfold to become a Soviet republic than a prey to world Jewry...
Breen assaulted his audience with sex, violence, and sounds of foghorns and lapping water. He loaded the script with similes (sample: as difficult as "sandpapering an oyster"). But as the first program began, he stood in a control booth frantically waving at Webb to underplay. The show was an instant success, and for the first time Webb knew the delights of fan mail. Pat Novak ran for 26 stirring weeks. Then Breen simultaneously quarreled with the station management and got a Hollywood offer. He quit. An hour later, Webb quit, loaded his jazz records and clothes into his 1941 Buick...
Brewster A. Righter '57, of Holworthy and Oyster Bay, N.Y., will be released today from Stillman Infirmary, where he has been receiving treatment for a head bruise inflicted in a post-Smoker fight with four or five unidentified young men in the Yard Tuesday...