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...Though the music itself proves an asset, it has to consort with a yarn that time has made paunchy and libretto-writing made puerile. The brawling mankiller, the dashing lady-killer, the impudent, artistic scapegallows Benvenuto (Earl Wrightson) becomes just another musicomedy swashbuckler; the plot and gags are such spinach that the whole thing turns out to be a musical poached eggs Florentine...
...Spinach to Mother. With 25 years of flat and steeplechase jockeying on both sides of the Atlantic, 13 years of schooling on the U.S. smalltime circuit, Frenchy knew a good horse when he saw one. In August 1943, he saw one at a Chicago track. Despite a game front leg, Happy Issue ran the way Frenchy liked-fast from behind. Her breeding was none too fashionable: Bow To Me, her sire, had already been shunted off to Cuba as a has-been. But her paternal grandsire was the great French racer Epinard (spinach), for whom French-born Pinon had high...
...medical school. In the early '30s he noticed that baby chicks on a restricted diet had tiny hemorrhages under their skins. Their blood, he found, contained very little prothrombin, a blood element necessary for clotting. He cured them by feeding them pigs' liver, alfalfa, cabbage, spinach, etc. In 1935 he announced that he had isolated the curative substance from the foods, called it vitamin K after his scientific word for it-Koagulationsvitamine...
Jascha Heifetz, tuning up with two recitals in Rome before going on tour among front-line troops, announced that he would play only classical numbers, including some "musical spinach" like Bach's lighter works. The virtuoso observed that 10% of the soldiers "seem to like serious music . . . the other 90% get leg shows...
...wondering, are the fronds of a particular type of bracken which grows on the islands of the St. John River. They are picked each spring by the Malicite Indians, and here in New Brunswick we regard them as a great delicacy. Hope you will too. They are cooked like spinach, until tender, and served well buttered, if you can find any butter these days. They go better with shad, salmon or alewives than anything else I know...