Word: faddist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scoreboard ¶Australia's Murray Rose, the 17-year-old, flipper-footed food faddist who trains on seaweed jelly and experiments with hypnotism, churned 440 yds. at the New-South Wales swimming championships in a world record 4:27.1, passed the 400-meter mark on the way in a world record 4:25.9. When he caught his breath. Rose announced that he would visit the U.S. in the spring "to look around some universities," but admitted that Yale's ubiquitous swimming coach, Bob Kiphuth, had already all but sold him on the beauties of New Haven...
Appliance dealers complain that Westinghouse is not keeping pace with the competition. In a high-income highly competitive market, appliances have become increasingly faddist and highly styled, and the company that hesitates to change is lost. Many dealers feel that Westinghouse has moved too slowly. For example, most of Westinghouse's competitors brought out a "hot leader," a $199 refrigerator. By the time Westinghouse finally got around to a $199 refrigerator of its own, dealers said that it was too late. The field was flooded...
...alcoholic father and a tuberculous mother, Macfadden was an orphan at eight. In 1898 he founded Physical Culture magazine ("Weakness is a crime. Don't be a criminal''). By 1931 he admitted to a fortune of $30 million. Married four times and the father of nine, Faddist Macfadden's simpler tenets included "grass eating, having babies without doctors, standing on your head to make your hair grow." He favored one-legged squatting exercises, no alcohol, no steaks (lunch varied from grass tea and pea soup to nuts, beet juice and carrot strips). He pioneered in popularizing...
...bookshop, leaves the day-to-day operations to son Richard, 42, and to daughter Christina, 40, who has inherited her father's flair for bookish ballyhoo. She presides over Foyle's monthly literary lunches, where new books are launched and authors are publicized. When Health Faddist Gayelord Hauser (Look Younger, Live Longer) appeared, she surrounded him with leaders of church, stage and business, and every one of them was over 80. Once when George Bernard Shaw was slated to speak, he was asked if he wanted a vegetarian menu. Said Shaw: "No, the thought of 2,000 people...
...platoon leader (John Agar). Unlike Battleground, which it most resembles, Breakthrough makes no bones about recruiting its soldiers from Central Casting and assigning them to spell the carnage with a few vaudeville turns. One infantryman is a vaudevillian who does imitations of movie stars; another is a musclebound health faddist whose casual rejection of a man-eating mademoiselle's advances comes straight out of Li'l Abner...