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TIME's cover this week is a Thanksgiving tribute to good cooks everywhere-and particularly to the Lady with the Ladle, Julia Child. When the story went to press after five weeks of intensive reporting and writing, those who had worked on it wore a sleek and well-fed look. Some had enjoyed meals created by Julia herself, while others had sampled the work of gourmet cooks across the country, shown in our color pages...
Boston Bureau Chief Ruth Mehrtens spent five days in the Childs' sunny kitchen interviewing Julia and occasionally lent a helping hand when there were peas to be shelled or a chicken to be stuffed. Ruth modestly admits that she is considered an excellent cook by her good friends ("and anyone who thinks I'm an excellent cook is a good friend"). Writer Marshall Burchard grew up in a food-conscious home in Boston; his father liked to re-create for his family meals he had eaten in European restaurants. While working on the cover, Burchard and his wife...
Artist Boris Chaliapin went to Cambridge to paint the cover portrait, and according to Julia it was the "beginning of a life friendship." After a sitting Boris would trade paintbrushes for Julia's pots and pans, and concoct some of his favorite Russian recipes: shashlik and a peasant soup made with chicken giblets, dill pickles and brine...
...famous Brussels marble Manneken-Pis fountain statue and the spectacular 104-ft.-long Neptune Pool, kept a constant 70° while Hearst lived. The pool was last used as a set for Spartacus, and it required no added props. As laid out by Hearst's architect, Julia Morgan, it is surrounded by two Etruscan-style colonnades, backed by a Greco-Roman temple, and fronted by a marble Birth of Venus. Equally awe-inspiring is the 83-ft.-long assembly hall with an immense 16th century Italian carved-walnut ceiling and a 16th century French stone mantelpiece for which Hearst...
...Thursday's meeting, RGA members will vote on a formal proposal to revise the current parietal set-up. But it is unlikely that RGA will ask for both an increase in the total number of hours and for midnight parietals, Julia Curry '69, secretary of RGA, indicated. "We don't want to ask for too much at once and have the whole thing blow up in our faces," she said...