Word: fats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With three complete turns of the Pacific to his credit and the war ended, Paar turned his fat press notices into a movie contract and a radio show for Camel cigarets. He lasted exactly three weeks. "They cut my lines," he says. "They had no understanding of the real me." American Tobacco came to the rescue...
...journalism's best-known pundit left his camp in Bernard, Me. a little while ago and returned to his ivy-covered home in Washington. He did not have any fresh-caught fish. What he had was a fat, prickly and impressive essay on U.S. foreign policy. Looking a little old, with heavy pouches under his eyes, 58-year-old Walter Lippmann-author of 19 books, New York Herald Tribune columnist since 1931-sat down to put together his thesis, which he called The Cold War. Two secretaries hovered beside him. Western Union stood by to pick up his copy...
...like to see Mr. Strachey† queue-in' and scrapin' for every bit of fat and soap. It's the women wot 'ave the 'ard time these days...
...comparison, the character of Beaumarchais remains a paper doll. So do most of Feuchtwanger's supporting players: the pretty Hapsburg queen, Marie Antoinette, with her "Lilac Coterie" of expensive courtiers; the fat and timorous king, who hated rebels on principle; and various noblemen, courtesans, and intriguers of Versailles. The dying Voltaire comes up from Ferney to see his play, Irene, and to give Feuchtwanger a crack...
Tears of sympathy need not be shed for the plight of the misunderstood and isolated Russians. Fat has dealt them one of the strongest hands at the international poker table. If they choose to play with a blatant disregard for the best established principles of Dale Carnegic, they should not expect that the other participants will smilingly throw in their hands. At the same time, any talk of reorganizing the U.N. without Russian membership is decidedly unrealistic. The U.N. without Russia would meet the same disaster that befell the League of Nations without the United States. The important issues...