Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MARGARINE topped butter for first time last year. U.S. consumed 8.6 lbs. of margarine per capita v. 8.5 Ibs. of butter. In 1935, spread was 17.1 Ibs. for butter, only 3 lbs. for oleo...
Guinness had a comparatively good war. Commissioned, he was sent to the Mediterranean as captain of an LCI, assigned to ferry butter and hay to the Yugoslav Partisans. On convoy duty, he recalls, he had trouble keeping his ship in line, and once, after several days of bad steering, he received a terse communication from the flagship: "Hebrews 13:8." He looked it up in the ship's Bible: "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever." In the invasion of Sicily he was the first ashore-a mistake in orders. When the admiral arrived at last, Guinness...
...Judges 5:25, last clause (butter...
Victor Borge: To be excruciatingly funny, Pianist-Comic Victor Borge needs only to munch a sticky peanut-butter sandwich, or hunt for a B-flat for the score he is pirating from the great composers. For this season's one-night stand on CBS, the theater's longest-run one-man show (849 performances on Broadway) shared his whopping $200,000 fee with an orchestra and guest stars. But the evening was mostly comedy, and, comic or serious, it was all Borge...
...ever-widening void for small neighborhood papers to fill (TIME, Dec. 2). In no city in the U.S. is this more true than in sprawling Chicago, whose press is frequently apathetic to corruption. Says Press Baronet Sagan: "A neighborhood paper has the local, personal function, the bread-and-butter job, of telling who married whom-and you'd be surprised how many people care. The second function is concern for civic affairs. A city is a terribly complicated animal. It's even harder for people to know what's going on in their own city than...