Word: sturgeon
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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...
...millionaire businessman from Chicago-a capmaker. The Senators were trying to find out just what it was that caused his remarkable success in getting lush cap contracts from the Armed Services textile procurement office. Ohio's Senator George Bender suspected that the half-ton of smoked sturgeon that Lev had given to 38 procurement office employees might have helped-might, in fact, have been bribes. Astonished, Lev answered that the sturgeon could in no sense be considered a gift: "A gift is something a person wears...
Rafting to Quebec. In the long era of peace that has reigned over it ever since, the river became a great commercial waterway. Fisheries thrived in its waters. Harvests of cod, whale and eels were yielded by the salt tide that rolls upstream from the Atlantic; sturgeon, whitefish and trout teemed in the fresh-water lakes. The virgin forests on its shores fed the pioneer lumber industry with log rafts the size of small islands floating downstream to be loaded in ships at Quebec...
...shipyard in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., Mrs. Jean McCarthy, wife of Wisconsin's junior Senator, swung heftily with both arms, smashed a bottle of champagne across the bow of a new Navy vessel, the 385-ft. LST 1170. Joe McCarthy, as silent as he has been at any event in years, glowed and said: "It's Jean...