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Probably ninety per cent of the American populace think the only Chinese food is the Cantonese. Happily this is not so, and such dishes as Peking ravioli, shrimp on toast, and Shanghai duck are delicious evidence that the Mandarin is just as good, if not better. Until now northern Chinese fare has been as rare in discovery as it is superb in taste, and local epicures have had to travel many miles in search...
...somewhat) serious comedy, Patate's ailments are more complicated. That closely plotted plot deals with two men whose relationship bears many points of resemblance to that subsisting between Gladstone Gander and Donald Duck. Donald is the hero of the play the "patate" (helpfully defined in the program as "schmoe; patsy; fall guy.") It turns out, however, that his primary concern for several decades has been to nourish vengeful, bitter (and, admittedly, not unjustified) hatreds against his rich "friend," meanwhile nourishing himself by borrowing the friend's money. The patate is presented as a sweet guy, but in spite...
...Canadians and 2,250,000 U.S. duck hunters, 1958 will not be as good as 1957. It will still be a good year. After an early hatch because of unseasonably warm weather, drought struck the potholes. The number of breeding places dropped from 10 million to 4,500,000, threatening ruin. What saved the season was the cooperative conservation practices of Canada and the U.S., and of the privately run Ducks Unlimited (TIME, Sept. 18, 1944), which alone raised $6,750,000, built 714 small dams and flooded 530 breeding marshes. Re-nesting ducks flocked to the areas, were able...
Modern game management has put an end to the old blunderbuss days of the early 1900s. With indifferent conservation, the duck population plummeted to about 30 million in the 1930s, threatening an end to the sport. Today's bags are carefully limited and so is the season, which lasts about 2½ months in each area. No hunter comes home with a wagonload of mallard, but most everybody gets a duck dinner, and leaves plenty of birds for next year...
...Shake It, Gal." At the Cobb County Fair in Marietta, Ga., the purple cotton candy and the foot-long hot dogs were going great. Duck-tailed farm boys and their girls rode the Ferris wheel for a high-arcing view of the cornfields of home. The talker (spieler) turned them in for 72-year-old Jim Jagger, fire eater ("I will amaze you by rubbing the burning torch over various parts of my body and anatomy"), a tattoo artist and human pincushion. The sword swallower put away a 10-in. blade ("I'll ram it down my bread basket...