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...stands in Texas, gone sardine fishing off the coast of Maine, reported Danish markets, shopped Les Halles in Paris, donned a sou'wester at 3:30 a.m. to see how mackerel are caught off Long Island. She sometimes ladles out such unembellished advice as "remember lamb breast and shank today" or "snap beans are a vegetable buy," and always provides basic food facts on price, quality, recipes and tastes for everyone from the meat-and-potato man to the high-living gourmet. But mushrooms are not just mushrooms in her column, they are likely to be "pixie umbrellas...
...search for the source of the Orinoco River has long been a favorite obsession among explorers of South America's jungles. The jaundiced waters of the third largest river in South America sprawl across the breadth of Venezuela like a gigantic fishhook. The shank fans out into a delta just below Trinidad. The barb is buried far to the southwest, deep in the tangled wilderness of the Parima Mountains. For the past four centuries adventurers and scientists have hunted its headwaters...
...Stiff, formal Captain Harry Crook-shank, 58, a Tory whose shiny top hat, worn in the House of Commons, enrages Labor backbenchers, became Leader of the House. Anthony Eden had originally got the job, but decided that he couldn't do right by it and be Foreign Secretary too. Crookshank, as Minister of Health, will also run the socialized health service...
President Shanks plunged right into a program of decentralization, believing that local managers can get more business -and can handle the company's loans, collections, etc. better-if they are freed from top management's apron strings.' He opened a $9,000,000 office for Prudential in Los Angeles in 1948, gave the local staff virtually complete control over the business of eleven western states, except for top-level policy decisions. A Canadian headquarters swung into action in Toronto last September; Prudential's Southwest area (seven states) will be covered by a nearly autonomous staff when...
After Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, 63, had a gall bladder and appendix operation in Cincinnati, his surgeon, Dr. Reed Shank, was startled by a long-distance call from Washington. Harry Truman was on the line saying: "He's a personal friend of mine and I wanted to hear directly from you how he's doing." Dr. Shank told the President that the patient's condition was "very good...