Word: caked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murray wasn't satisfied in getting the Penn game televised in the Philadelphia area. He suddenly demanded that the regularly scheduled TV contest between Columbia and Princeton be piped to the Philadelphia area as well as the Penn game. "He wanted to have his cake and eat it too" is the curt way Hall summed up Murray's request. A series of violent telegrams crossed back and forth...
...Stevenson rode to the Illinois State Fair, accompanied by a strapping cowboy actor firing two six-shooters into the air. He accepted a layer cake from a bakers' union and had his picture taken sipping a chocolate milk shake. Halfway through the milk shake, he handed it to a wide-eyed moppet, saying, "Here, you take this. You look undernourished...
Hair of the Dog. In Inglewood, Calif., when George D. Pauly dropped a 50-lb. cake of ice on his toe, a doctor advised: "Go home and keep your foot in an ice pack...
Behind bars in the Philadelphia Zoo, where he has been looking with distaste at people ever since he was brought from French Equatorial Africa as a puny, 11-lb. baby, Bamboo, now a quarter-ton, 6-ft. evil-tempered gorilla, celebrated his 25th anniversary of confinement with a "birthday cake" made of cod liver oil, peanut mash and oyster shell, with a watermelon for dessert. The anniversary also chalked up a record. Bamboo, whether he likes it or not, is the only gorilla ever to survive a quarter-century in captivity...
...Zest. Procter & Gamble began test sales of Zest, a soap which holds the dirt and grime in suspension in the water, doesn't leave a ring around the bathtub. P. & G. claims Zest will produce suds even in salt water. Price: approximately 15? a cake...