Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Balanced Diet...
...denouncing television . . . This would put me in the unhappy position of the man who was allergic to his own liver . . . There are many programs on television today from which any man can draw profit and delight . . . My plea was for selective viewing and for that sort of balanced intellectual diet that would not forget the essential proteins and vitamins that can be found on the printed page and nowhere else...
...they left much untold. As their condition showed, they had been treated well, as Communist treatment of prisoners goes. They had been in solitary confinement from six months (Lieut. Cameron) to 26 months (Colonel Heller), but they were not otherwise physically abused. The food was a Chinese rice diet (with side dishes, said Colonel Heller, that "ranged from seaweed to bird's-nest"), but they did not go hungry. When they were moved from Mukden to Peking, in April, apparently in preparation for their release, there was a great improvement in the way they were treated...
Course Change. Brownie Reid is not surprised at the feeling of unrest at the Trib. But he thinks that the new diet is working fine. Unless there are unforeseen setbacks, says he, the Trib should finish the year well in the black for the first time in four years. Circulation and advertising are up, and he has big plans for expanding the paper's general news coverage, sports, features and business and financial news. The first issue of the new Sunday pocket-sized TV magazine (TIME, May 23) was a "big success," and Brownie hopes to syndicate it nationally...
Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker was also forced to eat an expensive diet of crow last week. Four years ago, in its attempt to take over the defense of Negro Rapist Willie McGee and use the case for party propaganda (TIME, May 14, 1951) the Worker printed an "exclusive." It charged that Mrs. Willette Hawkins, the Laurel (Miss.) housewife who accused McGee, had actually "forced an illicit affair on him for more than four years and suddenly shouted rape after the whole town discovered the story." Mrs. Hawkins sued the Worker for $1,000,000. Last week she settled...