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Several weeks after he arrived from Davidson in the late winter of 1969, the M Club, composed of former Maryland letterwinners, and the Terrapin Club, to which anyone who is willing to donate $40 a year can belong, spent $594 for a full-page ad in the sports section of The Washington Post, for the sole purpose of attracting the top four high-school prospects in the Baltimore-Washington area...
Today, though the company shies away from such freak items as smoked whale steak and chocolate-covered ants, its goodies run the gamut from terrapin stew to mushrooms grown in Parisian caves and frozen coquilles St.Jacques in real shells. Its private brand of Kentucky bourbon is a best seller in New England. Despite its gourmet eminence, S.S. Pierce ran into trouble when supermarkets began stocking rival specialty foods to lure the well-to-do. Sales have stagnated around $35 million a year for a decade, and profits have lately dwindled to the vanishing point. Incoming President Williams hopes to beef...
Marbles & Stuffed Terrapin. "What this exhibit shows," explains Hayes, "is that there are many tastes, none any better or worse than the other. This is the difference between science and art. Old science is no longer useful, but art of one age is just as good as that of another." In arranging the show, he tried "to pounce on any contrasts or similarities." Baroque Italian cupids by Guido Reni hang beside Isamu Noguchi's stainless-steel Man in Space. A gemlike 15th century English marble Pietà contributed by Seward Eric...
...pending bill and a Congressman's aye is through his stomach," he installed a French chef in his kitchen and invited Washington's notables. He was a master of the graduated political gift; Presidents occasionally might receive a case of Madeira, while Cabinet members would rate only terrapin, and Congressmen wound up with canvasback duck. Ward never arm-twisted guests or mentioned his interests, but when a bill of his reached the floor, former tablemates would receive a note: "This is my little lamb. Be good." Though he helped others make money, Ward could never hold...
...Terrapin pole vaulters, Stuart Markeley and Robert Williams, have cleared 15 ft., and two others have topped 14. Navy's Mike Brown should win this event, but Maryland could escape with as many as seven points...