Word: spaghetti
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...suggested that a more cooperative food, such as spaghetti, be allowed to try its luck...
...most interesting thing about this place is its owner, Lou Catania. A poor-but-honest spaghetti-puller from the old country? Not on your life. He barbered his way through the (U.S.) depression, marrying the boss's daughter. Aften ten years as a railroad brakeman, he surrendered to hay fever (dust in the baggage car) and founded a chain of pizza parlors around Boston and the Cape. "Leaning Tower of Pizza," that inspired pun, brought him national interest and the attentions of a large noodle concern. The Prince Spaghetti Company settled on Tower like a great leaking blimp...
They had little money, but persuaded several companies to furnish them supplies in return for later testimonials. They called themselves "The 1959 Franco-American Students' Automobile Tour of Africa" ("What a mouthful," Donald wrote home. "The 'Franco-American' sounds like spaghetti, and the 'students' sounds academic, but it's the best we could come up with"). On July 4, they set forth in two small Citroëns loaded with camping gear...
...night last week Jan Drake draped herself in her best stone-marten stole and joined Little Augie for drinks at the Copa, then went on to a spaghetti house (Husband Drake had a nightclub engagement in Washington). After dinner, they headed for the Drake home in Queens to look at boxing matches on TV. They never got there. Forty-five minutes after leaving Manhattan, Augie's black Cadillac was found on a quiet street in Queens, its motor still running. Jan Drake was slumped against the car window, one bullet hole in her temple, a second in her neck...
Stringing Along. In Riva Trigoso, Italy, Giacomino Bianchini won a silver fork for eating 1.1 Ibs. of spaghetti in 34 minutes with his hands tied behind his back...