Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Takizo Matsumoto is a Diet member and a longtime baseball enthusiast (ever since he was a student at Harvard 20 years ago). In Tokyo last week he was watching some college students practicing. The coach signaled for a bunt, but the player whacked the ball into right field. Takizo Matsumoto went up to the boy. "Didn't you see the coach calling for a bunt?" he asked. The boy shrugged. "Sure I saw him," he said. "But is this not a free democracy...
...Manhattan's Polo Grounds, NBC Telecaster Bob Stanton (TIME, May 26) decided to have a hot dog-with mustard. He had barely got it down before his doctor, who had been watching at home with disapproval, called up and scolded Stanton roundly for breaking his diet...
With the Star eclipsed, Seattle became another city without a balanced editorial diet. John and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, the only other publishers to promise variety, had sold their weekly Home News, to concentrate on their struggling (circ. 8,300) daily Arizona Times in Phoenix...
...press has tended to discount its own validity, and, as a result, the morale of its readers is low. They have been fed on too constant a diet of superlatives and excitements. . . . From public slogans and party platforms, shrill editorials and spiced-up news, to the insistent din and pretense of advertising, the reader . . . comes to believe that the careers of newsmen depend on the illicit transformation of narrative into melodrama. . . . He imagines propaganda both where it is and where...
Just to Make Sure. In Los Angeles, Rel Brown could not remember if strawberries & cream were on his diet, telephoned his wife in London to find out that they were. Cost of phone call: $94; cost of breakfast with the strawberries...