Word: asparagus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With her main course of lobster Newburgh (frozen) she served asparagus tips in Hollandaise sauce (frozen), quick rice with mushrooms (canned) and hot rolls (heat and serve...
Goodyear Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). James Thurber's story Christabel, about a little girl whose dog eats all the heads off the asparagus in daddy's suburban garden...
...only feeble response. Behind him a captain rattled off a steady stream of orders to his men scattered through the audience. "Phantom Two to Phantom: when the speaker shouts 'Algerie,' you shout 'Franfaise!' Shout! Shout! Don't just stand there like sticks of asparagus...
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, 28, comes from a socialite Republican family (the late Manhattan Financier John V. Bouvier III), got a socialite's education, was inquiring photographer for the Washington Post and Times-Herald when she met Jack Kennedy "over the asparagus" at a dinner party in 1951. They were married at a big Newport blowout (700 guests) in September 1953, have an infant daughter. Although she traveled with her husband during the last campaign ("Some days we would shake 2,500 to 3,000 hands"), Jackie tried to avoid making speeches, prefers a homebody's life...
Seldom before had so many fancy foods been set before the gourmets and gourmands-eel from Canada, white asparagus from Belgium, kangaroo steak from Down Under, smoked Ostyepky sheep's-milk cheese from Czechoslovakia. The occasion was the fourth annual Fancy Food and Confection Show last week, and buyers marched into Manhattan's caviar-class Waldorf-Astoria to examine 20,000 food products-four times as many as last year...