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...Verdon, 41, who steamed out of the White House kitchen complaining about the Texas menus, has gone to work as "culinary consultant" to the Hamilton Beach Division of the Scovill Manufacturing Co. in Racine, Wis. Le metier: touring the U.S. to demonstrate electric blenders and knives and whoop it up for the company cookbook, which recommends such delicacies as hamburger soup, crab-meat corn chowder, and baked honey-orange ham slice...
Costumed in flying togs, Danny Kaye set off from New York's La Guardia Airport to pilot a friend's twin-engined jet to nine U.S. cities to whoop up support for the Halloween "trick-or-treat for UNICEF" campaign. The idea was for the kids to go out and collect nickels and climes for the agency, the United Nations Children's Fund. At Philadelphia, Danny had an urgent phone call from UNICEF's executive director, Henry Labouisse, 61, and when he got to Washington, Danny told the waiting schoolchildren about a very large treat indeed...
There's a little place in East Cambridge--it used to be a synagogue--where Portuguese Americans whoop it up every Friday night. Ernie Souza's combo plays in one corner and a bar stretches along the back wall. As Al Vellucci enters, the noise and the laughter shifts towards the door...
WAYNE FONTANA AND THE MINDBENDERS: THE GAME OF LOVE (Fontana). Manchester's Mindbenders mind their rhythm 'n' blues as they holler "The purpose of a man is to love a woman," and then whoop, "Come on, baby, let's play the game of love." They are equally exuberant as they beat out Keep Your Hands Off My Baby and Girl Can't Help...
...British withdrawal from the colony, he earns the reader's deepening respect by judging the Africans who are coming to power by the same standards. If there is a moral to the book, it is the mild one that the African politicians who shout for reform and whoop up riots are essentially the same sort of men as the British consuls they are replacing. Novelist Fowler, who was a colonial officer in Asia and Africa for 30 years, allows himself only the faintest nostalgia; the best of his Africans is a fine old chief who cannot adjust...