Word: caked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went before us"), which the sophisticated Cooper could chuckle over later, still recognizing and reverently respecting their basic truth. Afterwards, Cooper drifted among the patches of family groups, diligently shaking hands. He ate a huge helping-fried chicken, cornbread sticks, deviled eggs, stringbeans and bacon, two kinds of cake, watermelon. Then he flew off again, for a brief look-in at a tobaccomen's convention in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., and a $100-a-plate campaign fund-raising dinner in Louisville. This week, after four days of duty at his Washington desk. Cooper will go back to Kentucky...
...than his opponent will weigh heavily against him with many voters. He is only a few pounds overweight (190 Ibs.), but, as he rumbles, "I always gain weight on campaigns. Out visiting these people, they put on the table Kentucky ham, fried chicken, turnip greens, boiled potatoes, three-story cake and the other good eats. It's hard for a healthy man to resist." Barkley recognizes in Cooper a formidable opponent, and he realizes that it has been six years since he last campaigned for himself-a long time away from the hustings...
...huge Hollywood sound stage one night last week, after the day's work was done, TV's most popular comedienne stood before a twelve-layer cake and read the words on the icing: "The first 100 shows are the hardest." But for Lucille Ball and Husband Desi Arnaz, the first 100 shows have also been rewarding: approximately 50 million people-one out of every three Americans-tune in to I Love Lucy every Monday night (CBS, 9 p.m.). No other regular TV show has ever claimed such an audience...
Last week, eying her towering cake, she paid homage to the three people most responsible, besides herself and Husband Desi, for keeping the show on top of the heap. Said shrewd Comedienne Ball: "I love them dearly, I appreciate them daily, I praise them hourly, and I thank God for them every night." Everyone in the studio, from stagehand to sponsor's representative, knew that Lucy was talking about Chief Writer and Producer Jess Oppenheimer and Writers Bob Carroll...
...Coffee & Cake. Recovery, Inc. (a nonprofit organization in which members are nevertheless encouraged to make "freewill offerings") somewhat resembles Alcoholics Anonymous, but instead of keeping members off the bottle, it keeps them listening to Low. The patient joins a local Recovery chapter, meets at least once a week with fellow members to exchange symptoms over coffee and cake. He is assigned the telephone number of a cured "senior" to call when in trouble. Dr. Low treats members through lectures, reinforced by Recovery's 400-page bible, Mental Health Through Will-Training (5,000 copies sold to date), a newsletter...