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...make the shrimp test," was the way General George C. Marshall's wife, Katherine, described one of her social duties. At parties she serves the Secretary of State as a sort of poison-taster, she explained. Anything with shrimp in it makes him pass out cold...
...back-century anecdotes from the days of Buffalo Bill, Jack Dempsey, and Paul Whiteman, homely philosophy, and innumerable references to unimportant and only occasionally interesting friends and relatives of the author. It is full of phrases like this one: "I have never again heard from the crudite tea-taster, and what became of him I do not know. The busy years find us neglectful of those wise counselors who influenced our early lives." A gentle tear for the boys I left behind me. There is wit in "Solo in Tom-Toms," but the memoirs of a lesser journalist, though perhaps...
...downs of the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, Lord Emsworth's useless boy, who finally gets himself an American heiress and a job in her father's dog-biscuit business ("I can't think what they would use him for," mused Lord Emsworth, "unless as a taster"); or the love-and-golf short stories of that Ancient Mariner of the links, the Club Bore...
...Taster Titterington...
...your issue of Aug. 9, p. 19, you described Eric Titterington Bey as a taster of food for the King of Egypt, to guard him against poisoning. In the royal palaces at Cairo and Alexandria and on the royal yacht, used by the late King for his frequent trips to Europe, are well appointed laboratories in which Mr. Titterington and his staff analyze much of the food used on the royal table. On a visit to the laboratory in the Abdin Palace, Cairo, I found Mr. Titterington was analyzing a keg of butter, part of a large shipment recently shipped...