Word: dieter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since most users agree that the stuff is vile-tasting ("It's glubby," said a Dallas dieter, "absolutely nauseating"), many mix it with gin, rum or bourbon. Some freeze it and eat it like sherbet. A Washington lovelorn columnist advised the wife of an alcoholic to spike her husband's gin with Metrecal. One happy user of a similar supplement is Dallas' Specialty Store (Nieman-Marcus) Tycoon Stanley Marcus. "I've lost 15 pounds," says he, "several times." Marcus' specialty is "a kind of Spanish gazpacho soup." He mixes the dieting powder with cucumbers, tomato...
Gloomy Muttering. Despite suggestions from the manufacturers that dieters should consult with their doctors and should also maintain a carefully selected food intake, thousands are under the mistaken impression that they can go on eating as much as they like and still lose weight, so long as they drink their Metrecal. Even those who know better are sometimes weak in will power. Office workers in one San Francisco place recently heard the telltale sound of a crinkling candy-bar wrapper, found a devout but spineless dieter surreptitiously gobbling chocolate and cookies at her desk...
...successful TV production of Madame Butterfly. Soon afterward, when he married Moffo, Lanfranchi took over the handling of her career. His services include the design of Moffo's shoes, clothes and 100 hats. "Without him," says one Italian, "she would still be a promising but struggling singer." ¶Dieter Berger, 40, who met his wife, Soprano Rita Streich, after the war when he was assistant stage manager at the Berlin State Opera, is an operatic husband who struggles to maintain an occupation of his own; he has a small motion-picture company and films TV travelogues where-ever Rita...