Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the show-biz-sporting crowd that collects there. Gleason stands around at the bar, communicating in the limited vocabulary of the milieu: "Pal," "Bum," "Tomato." and "Har-de-har-har." Jackie compares Shor's to "the corner candy store when you were a kid, except instead of Jujubes you've got the booze." The famous story is true that Gleason and the 240-lb. Shor once raced each other around the block, running in opposite directions. Gleason was standing coolly at the bar when Shor puffed in. Gleason had used a cab. but Shor, whose giant brain...
Meanwhile, someone on one ship or the other has tossed a tomato onto the other deck, and soon our crewmen are being actively besieged by tomatoes. Our mate is incensed, "Provocation, aggression!" he screams, and the crew sets up an uproar about "standing firm" and "teaching those hoodlums a lesson" and "we're ready for anything." Another tomato splats in front of our mate and we open fire, Immediately the other ship returns the barrage. When the dust clears, it is apparent that both ships are sinking...
...telephone (in a suitcase), a pink cat (without a name) and a bottle of Scotch (for wetting Holly's whistle and Scotch-and-watering the flowers). And every Thursday. Holly dutifully goes up the river to Sing Sing, where she visits a darling old narcotics trafficker named Sally Tomato. She finds it perfectly sweet that Sally should pay her $100 a week to come talk to him for an hour, perfectly natural that he should want to send his lawyer a weekly weather report. Sample report: "Snow flurry expected this weekend in New Orleans...
...Digging near the cucumber-and tomato-growing village of Vraona on the east coast of Attica, Dr. John Papadimitriou, director of antiquities in Greece's Ministry of Education, uncovered 15 wooden vases carved in geometrical designs-the first such find in history. Knowing that fresh air would decompose the wood, which had been preserved in fertile mud since the 8th or 6th century B.C., the archeologist rushed them 23 miles to Athens for a thorough preservative bath...
...have forgotten how good food tastes!" exclaimed Donald C. MacDonald, Jr. '61 after sipping a spoonful of tomato soup, the first food he has had in seven days. MacDonald ended his week-long fast protesting the jailing of Mrs. Olga Ivinskaya, the woman believed to have been the inspiration for Lara in Dr. Zhivago, just before midnight yesterday...