(3 of 3)
The permanent damage from saber fighting—aside from ugly-looking scars—cannot compete with the knocked-out brains and teeth in boxing and college football.
HANS J. RAAB Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Sir:
One of the most outstanding German-Americans, Carl Schurz, was a member and later an Alter Herr of the Deutsche Burschenschaft [dueling fraternity]. And I am certain that he was just as proud to have been a member as I am.
HANS C. MISKA College Point, N.Y.
Sir:
Have the Germans really learned the lessons of World War I and World War II?
MRS. GEORGE JANISCH Seattle
Sir:
I am glad to see the primitive and ridiculous flesh-slashing exercises of some German Burschenschaften spotlighted by a foreign newsmagazine.
REINER HUNDERTMARK Aachen, Germany
Gold-Plate Special
Sir:
Ever since you reported that the Shah of Iran served pheasant a la perigourdine to the President and Mrs. Kennedy [April 20], I've been searching for the recipe. The least you can do is print it for me.
LEONARD J. LOCASCIO Silver Spring, Md.
> Remove the wings from 12 pheasants, and braise birds in a 350° oven for 15 min.
Add "enough" vegetables—shallots, parsley, carrots, onions, bay leaves and assorted herbs —several veal bones, and the pheasant wings.
Continue to braise for 75 min. Remove the pheasants and vegetables from the pan. Add 3 qts. of chicken stock, and "a little less than a fifth" of dry sherry and simmer for several hours. Add truffles Julienne (sliced into thin disks and then crosswise into slivers).
Remove the wings and bones from the sauce.
Pour sauce over vegetables and pheasants.
It's a dish fit for a Shah.—ED.
Man of Steel
Sir:
And now when we want to ask what we can do for our country, we damn well know whom to ask.
WALT MULLINS Norman, Okla.