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Even venerable Memorial Hall has had its share of flames. In 1874a hot pot of melted fat caught fire, filled the kitchens in the hall with smoke, and nearly burned through the wooden floor into the main dining hall upstairs...
While he talked, the plastic spinach dish went around the table once. The milk pitcher was filled and emptied and the waiter started calling for the dishes. He perched a coffee pot on the table edge as the hall began clearing...
...late French Artist André Derain used so much violent color in his paintings that a critic once remarked of them that "someone has thrown a pot of paint into the public's face." It has now been revealed that after he was fatally injured in an auto accident last summer, Derain woke up in a white-walled hospital room, attended by doctors in white, and murmured: "Some red, show me some red, before dying I want to see some red and some green...
Like its Cake Box tobacco, over the years Leavitt and Peirce has retained a flavor all its own. Founded in 1884 to serve the Harvard man, it immediately attained primacy as an exclusive gathering place for upperclassmen. Around its pot-belly stove pipe smokers gathered to experiment with tobacco mixtures and help the proprietors perfect the Cake Box brand that brought them fame. Today, Leavitt's struggles to maintain its old intimate atmosphere. In a world of Shultes and Hav-a-Tampas, it still conceives of itself as a gentleman's smoke shop...
With Narcy's "hairy Martian" as a starting point, the French press ran wild, and a deluge of Martians has been raining down ever since. They have come in flying cigars, crowns, comets, winged mushrooms, even a flying chamber pot. Unlike Americans who have seen flying saucers, the French "sighters" paid little attention to the vehicles. They were more interested in the people from space...