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...forget fat. It is a sort of blotter. It sops up the food and slows down absorption. So a moderate amount of fat helps you to feel less hungry and eat less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 34 Million Fatties | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...pause. "Oh," I said, "didn't you see that letter Taylor sent out?" "We had nothing to do with that," he answered. "If we had known he was ending it, we would have stopped him." "Is there still an Independents for Kennedy?" I asked him. Kennedy doodled on his blotter. "You better ask Mr. Taylor about that," he said. "His office is over in the Sheraton Plaza. We don't know anything about...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Independents for Kennedy | 10/23/1952 | See Source »

...grown rarther short in the sleeves." Mr. Salteena and Ethel are at breakfast when a letter arrives from Mr. Salteena's friend, Bernard Clark, inviting him to come and stay and "bring one of your young ladies whichever is the prettiest in the face." Taking "out his blotter with a loud sniff," Mr. Salteena promptly replies: "Certinly I shall come ... I will bring Ethel Monticue commonly called Miss M. She is very active and pretty ... I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Small but Costly Crown | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...story of the Western Union messenger who went in on a Monday morning, got caught in the red tape, and walked out on Friday a full colonel. There was the man who sat down at an empty desk to rest his feet and forthwith found himself with a phone, blotter, desk set and secretary. And then there was the acutely pregnant woman who accosted a guard and urgently demanded the way out. "Lady, you shouldn't have come in here in that condition," he said. "But I wasn't, when I came in," she wailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The House of Brass | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...problem may be a tough one for the Board, which is said to increase the punishment if a student's name is on the police blotter or in the Boston press. In this case, Boston papers headlined the names of everyone but the real culprit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Jailed for Breaking Window, But Only Dean Knows Who Did It | 6/12/1951 | See Source »

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