Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There ought to be more Harry J. Grants and Milwaukee Journals around the country [TIME, Feb. 1]. The decline of some of the finest cities in the nation can be directly attributed to newspapers that have slipped to fat and voiceless advertising sheets. Community leadership among them is so weak that even groups of women have-been able to raise louder voices of protest...
...share of stock with each $5-a-year subscription. When they had a slim $60,000 to go on, they put out their first issue. Now Jubilee has Editor Rice and eight others working full time, with four more part-time assistants. In the February issue, the editors felt fat enough to make their first standard introductory offer (six months...
...with a bang. His radio told of "heavy babies in [sector] Anton-Quelle-eight," and Knoke saw some 300 Liberators, "like a great bunch of grapes, shimmering in the sky." He attacked head on and got the surprise of his life. "I almost scrape [one] fat belly as I dive past. Then I am caught in the slipstream, buffeted about so violently that ... I wonder if my tailplane has been shot away . . . Damn all this metal...
...aiming at this consistency, the schools automatically exclude individual participation in certain worthy contests like the East-West Shrine charity game, or strictly amateur all-star soccer or lacrosse matches. This competition is far removed from the "big business" bowl games and the over-emphasis of athletics that accompanies fat gate receipts...
Disregarding the fact that fat men are funny by definition, Slezak performs nobly as Joseph, one of a trio of convicts who attempt to solve the problems of the Ducotel family. Losing money at an alarming rate, Felix Ducotel's general store in the French penal colony is soon to be closed by Henri Trochard, the prototype of a heartless capitalist. To add insult to bankruptcy, Ducotel's daughter is hopelessly in love with Trochard's nephew, who can only marry on the pain of disinheritance. At this point, it might be said with some justification that this is nothing...