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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Jules L. Alciatore, 70, chef and proprietor of Antoine's New Orleans' most famed restaurant; after long illness; in New Orleans. Once a year he closed his restaurant, went to France to find new recipes. His Oysters Rockefeller were so named because he knew "no richer name for their richness." Overindulgence in his café brûlo diabolique (coffee poured into a silver goblet of flaming spices and brandy) sent O. Henry to a bed from which he never rose. In his restaurant he permitted no smoking or coffee until after meals...
Kuncz filled in his days at Noirmoutier by reading, writing, lecturing on literature. A sculptor made pin-money by making and selling little statuettes of his well-remembered mistress. Some ran a gambling game, others bowled on a home-made alley. The poorer prisoners acted as servants for the richer. Two madmen, one of whom thought he was God, provided occasional entertainment. In the early years perversion was comparatively rare, but, to the sex-starved prisoners, the occasional girls they saw, on their convoyed trips outside the walls, seemed part-angels, part succubi. Once Kuncz and a few companions tunneled...
Professor Ingo Waldemar Dagobert Hackh of San Francisco's College of Physicians & Surgeons communicated to Science a theory that the human body, which continually evaporates its water content, might gradually store up a richer & richer mixture of heavy water, which might well be the cause of old age. Dr. Urey rushed to the defense of his discovery, spurned the Hackh hypothesis as nothing but a theory based on no experiments...
Three years ago a Buffalo, N. Y. autoworker named Clayton Woods bought an Irish Hospital Sweepstakes ticket on Gregalach in the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. When Gregalach came in second, Clayton Woods was richer by $886,360. Cried he: "I'll buy that horse Gregalach and keep him in a velvet stall."* To most newspaper readers, stories like Clayton Woods's are of lively interest. Nonetheless, it looked for a time as if the U. S. Press might not be allowed to print this most familiar form of human interest feature. After the Derby of 1931, when...
...said, theoretically at least, that mental deductions, like good cheese, ripen and become richer with...