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Serendipitous Supper. Last month Douglass Cater, who directs the institute's communications program and once served as Washington editor of the now defunct Reporter magazine, was dining in London with an old friend, Observer Contributor Kenneth Harris. "Do you know anyone with a few million to spare?" Harris asked. The Observer, it turned out, had been losing as much as $1 million a year and recently laid off one-third of its staff. The paper's owners, heirs of the second Lord Astor, were willing to hand over control to the right investor. Cater telephoned the Aspen Institute...
...beef." With woods and waters full of food, many early settlers found little incentive to farm. Besides, farms were fixed targets for marauding Indians. Pigs, which foraged for themselves, were easier to raise. As a result, by the 19th century salt pork became a staple at breakfast, lunch and supper. With the exception of Indian corn and potatoes, fruits and vegetables tended to be shunned as unhealthful, the principal cause of gastroenteritis...
...following: two to three dozen giant oysters, half a dozen crabs, two bowls of green turtle soup, six lobsters, two portions of terrapin, two ducks, one sirloin steak plus vegetables, and a tray of French pastry (size unknown)? It is difficult to know if this was breakfast, lunch or supper, for Brady reputedly ate six times...
...Majors and has starred in many oft-played commercials (Mercury's Cougar, Wella Balsam shampoo). A warm, giggly sort of girl, she is a practicing Roman Catholic who has a clause in her contract that allows her to leave the set to rush home in time to make supper for her husband. She has a sense of humor (asked once when she first realized she was beautiful, she replied, "Just after the makeup man got here; before that it was touch and go") and a developing shrewdness about her own power. Her contract specifies that she may keep...
...dreams about the football season just past, he probably won't have night-mares, but he will have a few mild regrets. "What hurts about this season," he said while looking forward to supper, "is that we really should have come through with it. We lost two games we should have won and everyone knows it. We're still hoping Columbia will beat Brown, because nothing is a given...