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In Moscow nowadays, there is good eating for high Bolsheviks, bureaucrats and army & navy brass. Grandest restaurant is the Hotel Moskva's (see cut); it gets out-of-season cucumbers from Stalin's own hothouses. Not quite as good, but better-known to Americans, is the dining room...
Funerals & Fires. "When I was a boy . . ." Blanton begins each Globe-Democrat column. Then, taking his readers by the hand, he roams through the green gardens (and occasionally down the primrose paths) of his remarkably precise memory of Paris and northeastern Missouri in the good old days. In successive columns...
Nowadays the island is dirt-poor, but judging by the ruins of some 7,000 small stone castles, it was a prosperous, well-populated land 1,000 years before Christ. Carthage conquered the island in 450 B.C. and reduced its people to a relatively barbaric state. Soon much of Sardinia...
Jack Campbell rarely risks his own money any more. There is not much point, he figures, in betting against pari-mutuel machines and the 15% (in New York) tax "take." Besides, says canny Handicapper Campbell with becoming modesty, "if I bet all the time I'd be broke. The...
In old days, when crying Haro was more frequent (Tom's is only the eighth clameur to be raised since 1900), the penalty for losing a case was severe: 24 hours' confinement in the lowest dungeon of 14th Century Castle Cornet. The penalty nowadays is only a small...