Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME, the best edited of all weeklies, has the fatuity of a fat cat when it presumes to add critical appraisal of Senators to its legitimate and well-done job of reporting what they do. Frank Costello would have gone broke if he had not been able to pick winners better than TIME...
...Fingers. Everything was handled with great care. Gangsters Albert ("Big Albert") Anastasia, Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles, Harry ("Pittsburgh Phil") Strauss and Emanuel ("Mendy") Weiss spent weeks in planning. One Jacob Migdon spent a long time "fingering" the job, and reported that Orlofsky, a short, fat man, left his Bronx apartment at exactly 7:55 every morning. Thus, when the big day came, Parisi was standing near by at exactly the right time...
...everything went wrong. Parisi had no way of knowing that his victim had left 20 minutes early to get a barbershop shave. He just fired five shots into the first short, fat man who came out the door-it happened to be a music-publishing executive named Irving Penn. Penn screamed and collapsed, dying. Parisi jumped into a stolen getaway car, driven by one Seymour ("Blue Jaw") Magoon-and found that a gravel truck was blocking the street...
...officers examined military personnel and laborers who had been working with DDT for as much as five years. In no case did they find an ailment traceable to DDT. To make doubly sure, they analyzed body fat from 16 men who had been exposed constantly to DDT. Though the insecticide tends to concentrate in fatty tissues, they found none of it in their samples...
First published (with music) in 1861, Hymns Ancient & Modern included about 160 hymns selected by a group of Church of England clergymen from various Anglican and other hymnbooks then in use. Through a series of revisions and supplements the original compilation waxed increasingly fat, until the current Standard Edition, dating from 1922, bulged with 779 hymns-good, bad, and virtually unsung...