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Attilio is a heavy, ruddy, boisterous, rich-voiced Italian with a grey brush mustache, tousled hair and oyster-shaped ears. His relations with people are whimsical and kindly. He rises at 6 o'clock, does the marketing, eats but once a day, at the great noon banquet. He has taught and housed many an impoverished art student, helped found Manhattan's charitable Leonardo da Vinci School of Art where he still teaches. He now has but one protégée, a vivid little 23-year-old named Vivian Lush who helped him work on the Rockefeller...
...soon as all the classes were gathered, Mr. Gardner spoke a few words of introduction, saying in part that the class of 1910 was still able "to totter down to the stadium." He toasted the Class of 1935 with a few well chosen words, declaring "the world is your oyster. Eat it alive, it tastes better that way. The blessings of 1910 are with...
Last week the vernal urge of U.S. citizens to get together and discuss their trade problems was manifest in scores of powwows up & down the land. In Washington the Oyster Growers & Dealers Association of North America puzzled over the decline in oyster eating: U.S. oyster consumption has dropped in 25 years from 230,000,000 lb. annually to 60,000,000 lb. In St. Louis members of the Associated Stock Exchanges heard the first public speech of Charles R. Gay, new president of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Gay pleaded for a better understanding of his institution...
...healthy U. S. oyster bears about 16,000,000 young. Biologists compute that if all the offspring of a single oyster should survive they would confuse the solar system. Within five generations one oyster's offspring, closely packed together, would bulk eight times as large as the earth. Last week on the first day of the 74th Congress, Representatives, less prolific than oysters, dropped 2,964 bills into the bill box at the right of the Speaker's rostrum, an average of almost seven bills per man. If all of them survived the U. S. would likewise...
Blue Points on the half shell, bisque of oyster crab, consomme a la Russe, bouchees of terrapin Maryland style, celery, olives, chutney, and boiled pompano, maitre d'hotel...