Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...libretto, by Italy's Carlo Goldoni, is a typical 18th century spoof of intriguing lovers and amateur scientists, involving a fat and foolish old father who will not let his two daughters marry suitors he disapproves of. When the old man peers through a telescope at the moon and thinks he spots a bevy of handsomely configured nymphs cavorting about in the near nude, one of his prospective sons-in-law feeds him a magic elixir that, he is told, will transport him to the wonderful moon world. Convinced, when he comes to, that he really...
...C.I.O. Born in 1933 on a wave of city-room salary slashes, the Guild was nursed through infancy by its fat and rumpled creator, the late famed Scripps-Howard columnist, Heywood Broun. It took plenty of nursing. Fledgling chapters had a distressing tendency to melt under pressure: during a 1935 strike against the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Guild membership on the 84-man news staff dwindled from 39 to 24. At first the newsmen resisted joining a national labor movement sponsored by common laborers, but within four years the Guild affiliated with John L. Lewis' new Committee for Industrial Organization...
...uneven, but at its best the album offers a fascinating sample of some fine, forgotten talents (including Billie and Dee Dee Pierce) and an evocation of the smoky nights when the splintery little dance halls used to shiver to the oldtime barrelhouse love laments: "Ah got mah big fat momma/Mah li'l skinny momma, too/Yes, mah li'l skinny momma/She knows just what...
Looking for the causes of "coronaries," medical men point accusing fingers at heredity, high-fat diets, emotional strain. Last week the American Psychosomatic Society met in Manhattan, heard a panel of experts examine the kinds of personalities most prone to heart attacks, re-emphasize the dangers of stress. Even the "lethalness of a high-fat diet in our society," noted Dr. Henry I. Russek, consultant in cardiovascular research for the U.S. Public Health Service, "seems to be dependent on the 'catalytic influence' of stressful living...
...that, Douglas released figures showing that 88 of the nation's 100 top contractors employed no fewer than 721 ex-officers with the rank of colonel and up. Douglas said darkly that there is grave suspicion that many of these men were hired as influence peddlers to assure fat contracts: "They didn't hire those 721 merely for their military knowledge...