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...segment of the industry, according to a 1984 survey by the National Fisheries Institute, and even in chain restaurants that serve meat, fish is gaining favor. A case in point is the Sizzler, with more than 450 restaurants in the inexpensive-to-moderate price category. Says Advertising Director Don Lum: "We've seen a significant increase in fish consumption in the past two years." Their expanded line offers for between $5 and $8 complete main courses such as shrimp, lobster, crab, salmon, New Zealand whitefish, orange roughy, John Dory, hoki, halibut and swordfish. And the Dallas-based TGI Friday...
Chicago Reporter Thomas McCarroll is waiting to file till the last possible moment: "April 15 at 11:58 p.m.," he vows. "I want to keep my money as long as possible." Reporter-Researcher JoAnn Lum, who assisted Senior Writer Otto Friedrich with the cover story, will also delay filing till deadline time: "I hate it," she says, "so I always procrastinate." Another reporter-researcher who worked on the cover story was Sidney Urquhart; she and her husband, with two jobs and six children between them, find the services of an accountant helpful, as does New York Correspondent Adam Zagorin...
...fighting is hot, but the staging is horrific. One worries more about the actors than about friend or foe. Part of the blame rests with the set. A conundrum at best, it consists of three-tiered automatically movable towers of ill-assorted lum ber, through which the actors peek out like birds in wooden cages. During the battle scenes these towers rumble about the stage firing off errant fusillades, al most running down the soldiers as if they were pedestrians...
Staff Writer Jim Kelly wrote the other main cover story, on the growing awareness and concern among Americans about the threat of nuclear holocaust. He was assisted by Reporter-Researcher Eileen Chiu, while Brigid O'Hara-Forster and JoAnn Lum worked with Talbott. Presiding over the entire package was National Editor John T. Elson, who was struck by the antinuclear movement's broad base. "The early opposition to the Viet Nam War," he says, "was by political radicals, and only later became a popular movement. Today's antinuclear leaders include Roman Catholic archbishops and Harvard law professors...
...they also might say in Canton, and elsewhere, Honor Is All. Kwong and Mary Ann Lum, the Canton-born owners of Dish of Salt, came back with chopsticks flying. For $1,200 they placed an ad adjacent to Sheraton's "Restaurants" column in the Times last week, claiming that they had been subjected to "a most malicious attack." Terming her critique "wise-guy," "sadistic," "prejudiced" and "misleading," the owners threatened: "We intend to hold you accountable for your cruelty, your malevolence and your viciousness." The Lums also claimed that Sheraton had only visited their restaurant once, not several times...