Word: baker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RICHARD HUGHES Chief Banto Baritsu Chapter of Baker Street Irregulars Hong Kong Sir: Okay, I can see leaving Gertrude Stein (straight) and Alice B. Toklas (soul) off your list, but Dear Abby (straight) and Ann Landers (soul) - unforgivable. BETSY TREMONT Teheran Sir: Please include Adlai Stevenson, soul uncle to all. SP4 A. R. WAYMAN, U.S.A. Avon Park, Fla. Sir: Aero engineers stole the moon out of Junes Medico pioneers took the heart out of tunes About all that's left in the bowl luv, is soul. ESTHER ANN GOLDBERG Lyndhurst, Ohio That Corson Book Sir: In its criticism...
...EXISTENTIAL SLAPSTICK. This genre seems to mix Mack Sennett and Samuel Beckett. A woman, responding to the call "Where's the Open Pit?", dashes across the lawn with a bottle of Open Pit barbecue sauce and disappears into an open pit. A baker, having carelessly forgotten his Vicks Cough Silencers, tosses pizza dough into the air, coughs and catches it splat in the face. Splat again, as the Pond's girl gets schlopped in the eye with cold cream. And whack! umph! and aaagh! as a mousy little guy, sploshed with Hai Karate after-shave lotion, brutally chops down...
...skill at twirling and tossing dough ten feet into the air made Pizza Baker Camillo Calogero a consistent crowd pleaser at a Lynbrook, N.Y., pizzeria. Then, one day last September, his neck was broken in an auto accident; he was no longer able to make the flamboyant motions needed to fling high the pizza dough. The 33-year-old father of three children sued for damages. Rejecting a defense claim that pizza can be simply flattened on a table with the hands, and considering other injuries to Calogero, a twelve-man jury awarded him $335,000. At his old salary...
...Baker v. Carr (1962) warned legislatures that the court would intervene to remedy legislative malapportionment if state lawmakers did not act of their own volition...
...avoid accusations of censorship, the Digest gave Baker the 5,000 copies of his book and turned over the printing plates to him free of charge. He plans to sign a contract with another publisher this week; sales, prodded by the controversy, promise to be brisk. The Digest, meanwhile, plans to watch Funk & Wagnalls products more closely than before. "We will begin reviewing all manuscripts," says Lewis. "Reader's Digest will exert tighter quality control over Funk & Wagnalls...