Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make money out of politics is not necessarily illegal. Last week's news brought some fascinating examples of the fine legalistic feathers that sometimes protect fat political birds...
Crackdown. When Ogden reported his findings, police and customs men moved fast. At Hong Kong, customs officers saw a Chinese sneak aboard a plane in the airport hangar and emerge carrying twelve fat envelopes. They grabbed him and recovered $142,000. At Philippine airfields, $171,000 more was confiscated. In Manila, an informer led Ogden to a man who offered to sell him 500 counterfeit money-order blanks at 25 pesos ($12.50) each, and obligingly showed him the printing plant where they were being turned out. Police nabbed the forgers...
...paper to feel the pinch. Hearst's morning Examiner has fired five news staffers in two weeks for "economy" and is close to being in the red. Hearst's afternoon Herald-Express, is reportedly in the red. Of all Los Angeles papers only Norman Chandler's fat, old morning Times is coining money. But it too has its troubles. It is pumping its profits into the Mirror, which it owns. Despite the Mirror's fast growth, the tabloid is still losing money. It looked as if there might be one too many papers in Los Angeles...
...have always taken for granted. The International Gerontological Congress in St. Louis gave that kind of back-pat last week: people do get more fatheaded. In the aged, reported Dr. Oskar Vogt of Neustadt-Schwarzwald, Germany, most types of nerve cells in the brain show cavities filling up with fat. The cells themselves fight the invasion, resist most successfully when the individual keeps active. Concluded Dr. Vogt: "We have observed no case in which overwork was found to have accelerated the aging of the nerve cells...
Berliners still remember the comic relief that fat Hermann Goering injected into the tragic drama of their lives. They remember him standing on icy street corners, bundled snugly up to the ears in a fur coat, shaking a collection box (for "Winter Help") and crying cheerily: "A few pennies, please! It is more blessed to give than to receive!" They recall how unconquerably waggish he sounded when he shouted (on the eve of World War II): "If an enemy bomber reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Hermann Goering; you can call me Meier"-and how they still...