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...Horse. A drama set in a waterfront gin mill, presented by the Parish Players of Vermont at the People's Theatre, 1253 Cambridge Street in Inman Square, through January 25. Performances Thursday through Sunday...
...Orleans school board to lunch and served them "fish Creole." When he identified the succulent dish as shark, selling for only 75? per lb., v. $3.50 per lb. for pompano or snapper, he landed a three-month contract to sell the school system 40,000 Ibs. Says Orleans Parish Food Buyer Jeanne Elliott: "It's about as popular as spaghetti and meat sauce or veal parmigiana," adding, "Of course, we just call shark 'seafood' on the menus." Battistella is also successfully selling frozen shark fillets (at $1.32 per lb.) in New Orleans supermarkets, and reports that...
...pride of many an English country church is its brass-not the personages in the pews but the medieval nobles whose likenesses, engraved on brass plates, are lovingly laid into parish floor and wall. Their lively presences have long been prized by those Americans who, on pilgrimage, spend long hours in drafty naves rubbing the images onto paper.* Now, for would-be brass rubbers, the transatlantic trip is no longer necessary. A unique shop in downtown Boston, the London Brass Rubbing Centre, makes available to plate rubbers meticulous plastic copies of top brasses ranging from a rare depiction...
...Parish whimsically described himself as "as young child, deprived of his innocence by the discovery that there is no Santa Claus...escaping to the winter wonderland of the South to rebuild his dreams...
Pupils at the all-black Holy Angels School on Chicago's South Side realized that handing out their usual holiday food baskets to the poor would not make a dent in local hardship; unemployment in the parish runs to 30%. So the kids sent 800 letters to Chicago businessmen, asking them to put the unemployed to work. They even read some of their letters aloud at Mass one Sunday. Wrote Tiannia Easter, 9, to the Peoples Gas Co.: "There are many people out of work in my neighborhood, but I would like you to hire just...