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Word: fats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prizes for the lucky winners. He spread out to candy (Chicago Mint Co.), counter devices such as peanut vendors and handgrip measurers (Pierce Tool & Manufacturing Co.), silk stockings and insurance. Koolish was so successful that he made a fortune now put at $4,382,348; he also built a fat record of complaints with Better Business Bureaus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: The Winning Numbers | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...Root. Models: Lois L. Ebelling '54, Betsy Ross '55, Rence Micheison '53, Mary Anne Goldsmith '55.Vests are both popular and practical. The headless gentleman in the picture wears his vest for Vanity's sake, but vest pockets are imminently useful for holding pencils, tickets, combs, thumbs and small flasks. Fat men and chilly men find vests vital to their wardrobes...

Author: By George S. Abrams, Erik Amfitheatrof, and Joy Willmunen, S | Title: Vest Vital to Fat, Pocketless Men; Buttons Revived | 10/23/1952 | See Source »

...second take sent the control-room people into ecstasies. Listening to it afterward, Jo discussed her half-hour's work of singing dispassionately: "It Should sell like You Belong to Me," she said. "It's got the same lustiness. It's gutsy. It's fat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bestselling Jo | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...sweat over. Tribune Publisher Helen Rogers Reid and her son, Editor Whitelaw Reid, 39, moved Herzberg over to run the slipping Sunday edition (circ. 596,775), which up to now has had no boss of its own. They want Herzberg to pep it up to closer competition with the fat, profitable Sunday Times (circ. 1,051,626), which in the past year gained 5,000 circulation while the Sunday Trib was losing 38,000. To prove that they mean business, the Reids are spending $1,000,000 on the new Sunday paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Thucydides' Sunday Job | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...heaven, has done each of the 38 figures with a loving hand; magnificently supple men & women, joyous children playing games, a family bowed in prayer, an old philosopher, two lovely sisters, a father with his son and daughter. Among the figures are bronze flowers, bugs, dogs and a fat, barnyard goose. The whole group stands in a polished, dark granite pool, each statue set on a slender stalk above water level, so that they seem to drift and float across the calm water. Overlooking the figures, Sculptor Milles has placed a merry-looking angel standing guard with a flute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Heaven on Earth | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

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