Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles Laughton thinks that the modern world has been brought up to look rather than to listen. This week he goes on TV with This Is Charles Laughton to help redress the balance. All that viewers will have to look at is Actor Laughton himself, a fat man in a rumpled suit, leaning on a stool placed on a table. But they will hear his sonorous voice descend to a whisper and rise to a shout as he reads stories from the Bible and Guy de Maupassant, from James Thurber and Dickens and Thomas Wolfe...
...catch your third fat...
...went to inefficient or high-cost producers. Defense Secretary Wilson plans to shake out costly, inefficient production; he also hopes to step up the supply of arms without stepping up arms-spending. With the help of Eisenhower's own knowledge of military ways, Wilson expects to trim the fat out of procurement...
There is no doubt that there is plenty of fat. For last year's $45 billion spent on arms, the U.S. got only 9,000 planes, and similarly low quantities of tanks, pieces of artillery, jeeps and trucks and an Army of 3,700,000. In World War II, for that sum, the U.S. got 38,000 planes, 10,000 tanks, 75,000 pieces of artillery, 540,000 trucks and jeeps etc. and supported an Army of ii million. Even considering higher prices and more complex equipment, the U.S. is still a shockingly long way from getting its money...
...pretty Lola" (Shirley Booth), who once had lots of beaux. Then Doc got Lola into trouble and had to marry her; their baby died. Now, after 20 years which seems to have "vanished into thin air," Doc is a chiropractor and a reformed drunk, while Lola is "old, fat and sloppy," with nothing on her mind but dreams of a lost puppy, Little Sheba, which is her own private symbol of the happy past. When their student boarder (Terry Moore) appears to have turned slut as Lola once did, Doc goes off on an alcoholic bender. By the time...