Word: sturgeon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algonac, Mich, on the St. Clair River. Algonac was a tough sailors' town situated in the midst of busy Great Lakes maritime commerce. There were a few small hotels, a general store, plenty of canvasback and redhead ducks, walleyed pike, yellow perch, black bass and an occasional sturgeon-and lots of sitting...
Birds & Bees. Last year Americans nibbled away $2,860,000 worth of Iranian and Russian sturgeon caviar, $1,000,000 worth of pâté de foie gras. Besides these two favorite standbys, last week's show brought out a cornucopia of new items. Chicago's Reese Finer Foods Inc. showed off a full pantry, from a $300 gift package of 60 items-Portuguese anchovies, Swiss candies, etc., stacked atop a barrel-based table-to 3½-oz. aerosol cans of cheese spread that sell for 59?. For the brave and the bold, there were the birds...
...talks" on 18th century erotica. By noon next day, one Manhattan store had received some 30 orders. The title mysteriously appeared on Boston's list of banned books. Enterprising Publisher Ian Ballantine quickly had publicity-prone Shepherd ghostwrite such a book (with Fantasy-Fiction Writer Theodore Sturgeon). Some 30 days later they served up an 18th century creampuff (" 'Gadzooks,' quoth I, 'but here's a saucy bawd!' ") dedicated to night people...
Seated at a table under a large picture of Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, the ensign heroically ate his way through an eight-course meal (including caviar, crabmeat, mushrooms, capers and sturgeon), rose repeatedly to respond to vodka toasts. Three hours after he had arrived, he retrieved his cap with dignity from under a picture of Stalin and walked firmly down the gangway, carrying himself like a piece of priceless porcelain and bearing farewell gifts of caviar and whale's teeth. "Don't bother our distinguished guest," said genial Host Solianik to pier-side reporters. "He's still enjoying...
...simultaneously subjecting English grammar and Senate rules to multiple fractures last spring, Capmaker Harry Lev left old Washington hands laughing hilariously as he comically told a Senate investigating subcommittee of showering Government procurement officers with gifts of smoked sturgeon, silk dresses and yacht parties (TIME, June 20). This week the subcommittee had the last laugh...