Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This dictionary definition refers to a fat (3,370 pages), red reference book which is indispensable to libraries, businessmen and working newsmen. Dozens of times a day in city rooms in the U.S., Who's Who in America (price: $20.80) is consulted by reporters for information. Who's Who has become such an American institution that the Federal Trade Commission has ruled it unfair trade practice for anyone except A. N. Marquis Co. to use the title without permission. Last week, as the biennial new edition was readied for sale, Who's Who's owner...
...Rufino Tamayo, the Big Fourth of Mexico's famed artistic quadrumvirate (the others: Orozco, Rivera and Siqueiros), 1953 was a fat year. In twelve months crowded with work and honor, Tamayo completed two huge murals in Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes, painted a monumental El Hombre for the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, and won a first prize of more than $5,000 for a roomful of paintings in Sao Paulo's biennial exhibition. He also found time to paint more than a dozen smaller pictures. Last week 17 of his new canvases went...
Princess Caetani (nee Marguerite Chapin of New London, Conn.) gets 500 or so manuscripts a year, and scrupulously goes through them all. Those writers lucky enough to please her fancy will see their stuff in Botteghe Oscure, a fat, cream-colored semiannual collection of writing that prints contributions in French, Italian and English. A writer who is known to be well-to-do may get very little for a fine long story. A poor poet may be paid beyond his wildest hopes for a brief poem...
...York's irascible Congressman John Taber, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, served notice of his intention to wipe out the Administration's anticipated $3 billion deficit. But last week the year's first money bill proved to be too tightly budgeted to render much fat, even under the sizzling gaze of John Taber's practiced eyes. Taber's committee approved, and the House passed, a $3,333,241,600 appropriation for the Treasury and Post Office Departments, a cut of less than 0.2% off the $3,338,783,000 presidential estimate...
...action. "They dump their load right on the Germania shipyards. I am impressed by the precision with which those bastards bomb; it is fantastic." But precision had its price: by the end of 1943, Knoke had shot down 20 Allied planes, and had himself been shot down twice. A fat man in scarlet boots rewarded him with the Gold Cross...