The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-08
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BY HENRY MsELMORE lUnited Press Stan COrrespOndenl

BY HENRY MsELMORE
 United Press Stan Correspondent
 New York, Mar 8-Conversation among New York's seven million or 50 citizens today was restrict ed almost entirely to speculation as to the nature of the secret food which Leaping Lena Levy, sister and manager of Kingfish Levinsky, compounded while doing research work among the pots and pans of her Chicago kitchen.
 According to Leaping Lena the new, strange food has been fed to the kingfish for the last three weeks, and will send him in the ring against Walter Neusel at the Garden tomorrow night more deadly than bengal tiger, more ferocious than a wounded leopart cat.
 My new dish " Lena explained today. has made the king posi- lively terrifying. He was terrific before, but now he's a tiger. Boy, he's 8 regular King Kong. No, no, l can't tell you the ingredients Of the food. It's a secret!"
 If Lena is not bluffing, and T0dliy 1ldS COhCOCtCu o NiIIiC Ny mamie enough to change the dull, clumsy and flat footed kingfsh into a thunderbolt of fury and devast- ing monsoon; she might just as well prepare to desert the prize- fight business and wallow in welath and prestige. Anyone with a food so powerful 1t gives man 400 horsepower where he had only six before, is going to find governments bidding furiously for her secret. Give Hitler the recipe and his storm troops would be storm dropping all over Austria in a week and be up on Frances roof pull ing the shingles off in a month. Mussolini would go pretty high for the concoction, too for with 1t his boys would be skidding down the Alps and appenines like kids down bannisters. As a reward, Il Duce would probably give Lena a four room apartment in the Coliseum and, alongside the Titus arch of triumph, erect one of be known as II Leaping Lena Arco di Tri- onfo.
 I did my best to get the recipe for the dish from Leaping Lena. I asked her if it called for eggs, If it looked like a pork chop, what it tasted like, and if it called for marshmallows on top. But she wouldn't furnish even a hint. The Herald Tribune man said he had a hot tip from a reliable source that Roman candles was the base of the dish, but I'm inclined to doubt 1t.
 Assuming that the kingfish's taste Is like mine, my guess is that the quettes. Three weeks of tapioca and I'd be vicious as Q South Amer- ican jaguar with the toothache. Three weeks of croquettes (any form) and I'd be so desperate I could take a whole roomful of jaguars, tie their tails together and wear 'em for a bathr0be.
 Croquettes are undoubtedly the lowest form of culinary life. The tij off on croquettes Is that you | never heard of anybody sust up and making croquettes. They're strictly q second day dish and they need 0 strong supporting cast. Be. sides, any dish that can't stand on it's own must be hidden under a sauce of the same consistency and taste is whitewash Is whipped from the start.
 (Ed Note: To some 1t may seem strange to start off with King Le- vinsky and end with meat balls. To me, however, having viewed both Kingfish and meat balls, it's a perfectly natural conclusion.).