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...Parsons buried one of their perfumed hatchets under a Romanoff's table. Admiral Bull Halsey. as best man, emceed the wedding breakfast celebrating Myrna Loy's marriage to Gene Markey. Gable guzzled champagne at Romanoff's with an indiscriminate palate. Errol Flynn naturally threw his suckling-pig parties at home, but Romanoff's catered them...
Electronic Cheer. Rich's department store in Atlanta sent children monorail riding on ''the Pink Pig Flyer,'' also boasted the city's largest (65 ft.) Christmas tree, a northern white pine imported from South Carolina. The Atlanta Constitution reported that "edible ornaments are being revived''; there was hardly a tree trimmer around without a couple of gross of chocolate snowmen tucked away in reserve in hopes of having one or two unchewed examples left by Christmas...
...most ferocious piece in the show is a star-shaped sculpture of two winged demons riding a couple of monsters, one resembling a mad dog, the other a lunatic pig. It was inspired by a newspaper photo of a band of Southern harridans hissing and screaming epithets at Negro children entering a newly integrated school. The women were grouped in such a way as to suggest the positioning of the monsters' heads. The emotion of the scene was transformed into an explosion of claws and hoofs, of talon-shaped fingers and screeching beaks. It is a bristle of total...
Self-Defense. Most bizarre of all is Amsterdam's "Night of the Pig." Stripped naked, 200 freshmen are jammed so closely into a room that they can scarcely move, and a small pig, bloated with laxatives, is tossed into their midst. The nauseated freshmen often trample the terrified beast to death in sheer self-defense...
...Disgusting," said Education Minister Joseph Cals, and a meeting of Student Corps leaders voted, 127 to 87, to modify such monstrosities as the pig killing. But they left the system generally intact, which delighted many an old Dutch college grad. In the good old days, recalled Justice Minister Albert Beerman, a Leiden man, some students there were involved in a hazing scandal. "But finally," said he, "they all came to high and respectable posts in Dutch society...