Word: big
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intermittent now; he prefers to let his 40-odd faithful squad of Broadway volunteers pump up the bulk of the gossip. When he does walk abroad, he likes to visit the scenes of old triumphs: "This is where I got Lepke." He is often alone-an isolation the big game he once stalked is pleased not to invade. He was seen alone recently at Rashomon, at the Louis Prima-Keely Smith opening at the Copacabana, and the other night he sat peaceably at Sardi's, a solitary diner, ignored by first-nighters streaming in to be met by Columnists...
...immunity gradually fades until, about the age of 75, she is statistically as susceptible to heart attacks as a man. If it is indeed the estrogens that confer middle-life immunity, can it be prolonged by taking estrogen tablets-and can men get this benefit without taking doses big enough to feminize them...
Geneva last week was a blaze of flags; trumpets sounded in the sun-drenched parks, and fireworks sprayed the night sky. Many a tourist assumed that the celebrations had something to do with the Big Four conference. But, at least to Genevans, this was something just as important: it was the 450th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin, in Picardy, and the 400th of Geneva University, which he founded...
Ward was an ex-convict (Leavenworth on a narcotics charge) who had gained respectability and success as president of B. & B., which grew under him from a $2,000,000 gross to $59 million last year. Yvette Ward's first big job for his company was redecorating the conservative, antique-filled lobby of the main plant in St. Paul. Recalls she: "I went extremely modern, but before the paint was dry, the executives were crying that I was ruining the place. My husband told them to stay out of the lobby until it was done. Then they loved...
...detergents," says pro-national-brands Paul Willis, president of Grocery Manufacturers of America. "There's as much as a 40?difference in price on some sizes at the distributor's level." The reason: manufacturers with more capacity than orders take on a job of putting out a big-volume private label without allocating their production costs realistically...