Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within two weeks Schulman caught up with Langlie again as the governor was having a 7:15 a.m. breakfast in Olympia's Governor Hotel. With him Schulman had Contributing Editor Spencer L. Davidson, who wrote the Langlie cover story. Davidson was out to see the state for himself and meet its governor in person. "Oh, no-not again!" cried Langlie as he saw the newsmen. They stayed with him all day, winding up in the study of the governor's mansion, chuckling over album pictures of Langlie as a high-school student and baseball player...
...surrounding Ike, said Stevenson, have dealt "the ultimate indignity to the democratic process": they seek to "merchandise candidates like breakfast cereal." The result: "No Administration has ever before enjoyed such uncritical and enthusiastic support." But has it used this opportunity "to elevate us? To enlighten us? To inspire us?" The delegates answered with thunderous "noes." The truth, he declared, is that not everybody at home is prosperous and that, despite what the President has said, our prestige abroad "has probably never been lower," and "we are losing the cold...
...health center and is issued his sweat pants until he leaves for home with a plan for daily exercise, he will be under close medical scrutiny and a Spartan regimen laid out by a board of 21 physicians. A 7 a.m. phone call will awaken him for 7:30 breakfast. Then he will bend, stretch, stoop in 30 minutes of calisthenics, plunge into steam and Finnish baths, face up to an "iron virgin"−drenching device which bombards the body with water from high-pressure jets. And after throwing medicine balls, punching bags, lifting dumbbells and a 30-minute rest...
Lisbon (Republic) boasts one of the year's most sadistic openings: Super-Criminal Claude Rains begins his morning by scattering crumbs on his windowsill, then brains one of the feeding songbirds with a tennis racket and hands it to his cat for breakfast. Besides birds and cats, Claude's posh villa is equipped with an English butler, an Iberian cutthroat (Francis Lederer), a bevy of nubile females who soothe his cares with piano solos and poetry readings. He also employs Smuggler Ray Milland, "who is a criminal too, but a nice one, since he is in the racket...
...Times will poach on the electronic preserve by using a TV circuit to send a daily ten-page, high-speed facsimile edition (circ. 25,000) to the Republican Convention in time for breakfast in San Francisco...