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...aproned activist with a penchant for keeping the neighborhood and community kettle whistling. With children on her mind and under her foot, she is breakfast getter ("You can't have ice cream for breakfast because I say you can't"); laundress, house cleaner, dishwasher, shopper, gardener, encyclopedia, arbitrator of children's disputes, policeman ("Tommy, didn't your mother ever tell you that it's not nice to go into people's houses and open their refrigerators...
Along the way, Welch and Partner Marti-Ibáñez formed Medical Encyclopedia Inc., with themselves and their wives as sole owners. They made a go of it, with a liberal assist from the U.S. Each year for five years, the Antibiotics Division helped sponsor a symposium on antibiotics. The technical reports presented, often by experts from Government lab oratories and great universities, were published in an Antibiotics Annual for the profit of Medical Encyclopedia Inc. That netted Welch an extra...
...been ordering .books at the rate of $500 a week. Catalogues offered more than 1,000 of the latest U.S. textbooks and bestsellers at only 10% to 25% of their U.S. list price. Gray's Anatomy went for $2.50 (v. a U.S. list price of $17.50); the Columbia Encyclopedia for $7.13 (v. $35); Advise and Consent...
...supposed to be ashamed of that?"). Said Gloria Combs proudly: "I was valedictorian of my graduating class at Middlesex County Vocational Technical High School, and I was on the honor roll straight through." The Combses promptly put up a book shelf in the living room, stocked it with an encyclopedia, books on child care, and such eclectic volumes as International Atomic Policy and How We Drafted Adlai Stevenson. They have read few of the books, Dick Combs conceded. "But it was the only front we put on. If the state doesn't like the way we live, that...
Contestants' methods for solution varied according to their personalities. There was the impestuous, headstrong type: he would stare intently at the puzzle until divine inspiration arrived. Then he would blurt something out: "ILCHAPANA!" and would rush to the encyclopedia to check the clue--no such place. So he would go back and stare some more, and come up with another flash: "PHALACIAN!" Eventually he might get the right answer, but generally this type didn't stick to it. He would get hung up on a tough one like TWO-SCORN-POE ("In this village in western New York State, Abner...