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This recipe is foolproof. You can use various types of shortening-chicken fat, bacon grease or anything handy. If you have some very valuable coffee left over, this can serve as part of the liquid. Or fruit juices. Or if you want to add a little rum, I have no objections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 11, 1977 | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...life for those few irreducible fragments of value that might justify it. He gets a surprisingly strong boost from David Hemmings, the onetime hip photographer in Blow-Up, who here turns in a pungent character portrayal as a local hanger-on equally devoted to Hudson and to rum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Big One Gets Away Again | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...beach cottage was about to become part of the 12-mile fishing limit, wasted little time in disabusing me of any pretensions towards heroism. So, popping open a 10 a.m. beer with the local priest and a couple of the town aldermen, I reluctantly boarded the reconverted, Prohibition era rum-runner the local ferry monopoly had provided to shuttle us off to safety for a mere $1.75 apiece. My friends I left to their uncertain fate...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: A Howling Good Tale | 2/12/1977 | See Source »

...backyard of his New Hampshire home? The BSO marathon, by coincidence, offers an analogous plethora of outlandish non-musical premiums for the generous and non-musical, musical and daring, non-daring and generous pledgers. Two one-hour flying lessons with Joseph Hearne, BSO bass player, for $200; chocolate rum cake baked by BSO violinist Ronan Lefkowitz '75 for $25; a doubles tennis match against violinist Sheldon Rotenburg and horn player Ralph Pottle...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Could George Plimpton Even Whistle Dixie? | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

...American strongman and an Oxford-educated Briton sat beneath a coconut tree on a tropical beach philosophizing. The strongman, Panamanian Dictator Omar Torrijos, noted that both their fathers had been teachers, and that he had left his family at 17. The Briton, Author Greene himself, mused between sips of rum punch: "You should thank God you did escape from home, because if you hadn't you might be an intellectual today." Greene quickly added: "I am not, because to be an intellectual is rather academic. A creative writer seems to me to be emotionally involved, and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 20, 1976 | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

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