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Nobody can roast tiger (two-legged, money-hungry variety) with the searing yellow flame that Jerome Weidman uses. In his first novel, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, and a sequel, Weidman barbecued some of the pin-striped denizens of Manhattan's garment district. In his latest (and sixth) novel, the tiger wears tweeds and its hunting grounds are the knotty-pine fastnesses of a Madison Avenue newspaper syndicate; but when the price is right, the beast still shows its breed...
...roast beef slicer in the central kitchen caused the epidemic of food poisoning last November, Edward W. Moore, associate professor of Sanitary Chemistry, told the CRIMSON last night. If his theory is right, Moore claimed, the dining halls may be able to prevent any recurrences of the attack...
According to his theory, the lapse of approximately three hours between slicing and serving of the roast beef gives the bacteria just enough time to form the toxin. The staphylococcus bacteria is found in the air everywhere, Moore said...
...troubling foods, two of the patients were free of gout. The classical remedy-colchicine-gives relief from pain. But the trick is to find out what the victim is allergic to, says Harkavy. It might be the grapes of the rich man's champagne or his rare roast beef; it might be the poor man's cabbage or the malt and hops in his beer...
...stripped the ailerons from their plane to hold them up. They used the C-47's plywood ventilator for a center beam (it broke), and the power plant for lighting. Air Force planes dropped them everything they could use-playing cards, whiskey, clothes, magazines, a Christmas dinner of roast turkey and pumpkin pie, a Christmas tree. Some even talked to their families in Greenland by radio...