Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play Danger, the first radio play ever produced. Though it was a disappointing debut ("A number of those English accents are so phony, you know," explains Ritchard), the balance of the first week's plays bore out the host's claim to a "varied diet" of entertainment. "The show has no rigid format," says Ritchard, "for there is always an audience for anything provocative, intelligent...
...priced," Nutritionist S. William Kalb of Newark told a congressional committee investigating advertising for "dietless" reducing treatments. Dr. Kalb passed out samples of a brand made of skim milk and lemon juice, estimated that the manufacturers made "about a 400,000% profit" on the pills. Added Dr. Kalb relentlessly: Diet is the only way to reduce...
...Javert, 50, tells it, he was "an ignorant neophyte" in 1936 when he blithely prescribed a high-mineral, high-vitamin diet for a three-time aborter of 41, gave her full emotional reassurance, and was rewarded by delivering her normal baby-although older and supposedly wiser men were using more complex treatments. Since then it has not always been so easy, but Dr. Javert has an enviable record (and a large following of husbands and wives who are convinced that they would never have had children if they...
...studio roared into gear. Experts straightened, leveled and whitened her teeth, put her on a rigid diet, redid and dyed her hair, exercised her in a gym and in acting classes, posed her on a tiger rug with a still camera staring down her bodice. One of the first rites was to change her name. Cohn liked the name Kit Marlowe. She insisted on keeping Novak. But the name Marilyn had to go because it suggested another blonde. For two days the new actress was named Kit Novak until she tearfully went to Publicity Director George Lait to plead...
Other highlights of Kinmond's series: there are many indications that the Chinese are weary of "a steady diet of dogmatism and Marxism." People react to party-line operas by "voting with their feet," i.e., staying away. Movies, almost the only entertainment most Chinese can afford (admission: 10?) are improved, thanks to a "trend away from the heavily propagandized production." In China's feverish attempt to educate its illiterate masses, schools are so crowded that students who finish one grade have to work on farms until there is room in the next...