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...Blue Parrot...
...lunch of reasonably good taste and moderate expense try The Blue Parrot. The Parrot is a hang-out for artsy types who linger over their meals, and if you don't mind waiting for a table or sharing your table with an artsy type this is as nice a place as any to get a sandwich or a snack of cheese and crackers. The luncheon menu is varied--the offerings range from a simple BLT sandwich to Hungarian goulash. Beer and wine is served, but the coffees are your best bet. The Parrot Viennese Velvet (coffee with ice cream, brazilia...
...Stoolie has a good, gaudy eye for the excesses of Miami style. It is pleasant enough idling through places like the Parrot Jungle, which features birds who roller-skate, and a nightclub for the aged, where a singer named Peppy Fields exhorts her audience to think young. The trouble is that there is a plot to be got over, and one that hangs heavily indeed...
...cancer; in San Francisco. Meyer spent more than 60 years studying a wide range of diseases, including botulism, encephalitis, plague and a host of more arcane maladies. Trained as a veterinarian, he devoted much of his research to the transmittal of animal diseases to man. While investigating psittacosis (parrot fever) in 1935, he contracted the illness and nearly died. Years later he arrested that deadly bane of budgie lovers by treating bird seed with antibiotics...
Across the street is the Ha'Penny, downstairs from the Blue Parrot and Ferdinand's. This is a solid Harvard graduate student hangout today, often heavy on the Loebies (it is not too far from the Loeb). The drinks are good, the atmosphere resembles a good House grill, the prices are reasonable, and the Ha'Penny is another good place to go with friends. It seems to be doing a real prosperous trade, since it is crowded on weeknights and weekends...