Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Afterwards even Hoad admitted that Hoad had been great. "I think I've played better in Australia," he said, "but this was good tennis." So good, in fact, that Amateur King Hoad promptly decided he was now ready for the pros, flew to New York to discuss a fat professional contract with Tennis Promoter Jack Kramer...
Middle-of-the-Road Survival. Last week the first, fat issue of the evening Citizen rolled off the presses in a converted warehouse. Within hours 8,000 newsstand copies had been snapped up; subscribers jammed the Citizen's switchboard with calls of congratulation. Said Kamin: "With the climate Hoiles created, we couldn't miss...
From more than 100 Sunday newspapers last week tumbled fat and gaudy magazine supplements devoted to a subject that to many dailies was once a bad word: TV. Newspaper publishers still fret over the economic challenge of TV, and critics chide it for challenging the intellect too little. Nevertheless, on the theory that 37 million TV-owning families can't be wrong, newspapers today are giving TV far more space than they gave to movies in Hollywood's heyday-just as the average family spends far more of its time with TV than it ever spent in movie...
...injustice, corruption and poverty," and a euphoric mother who dismisses all that sort of thing as "Bloomsbury talk." But the narrator's main concern is love, and the way in which it has come to six women of her acquaintance. The backgrounds range from bomb-flattened Warsaw to fat and peaceful Stockholm, from English country houses to the ski slopes of Austria's Vorarlberg. The people are nearly as cosmopolitan as Author Zilliacus herself (she has Swedish, Polish, Finnish and American blood), and their luck is uniformly bad. Placid Maria is forced into marriage with a Russian count...
...cotton, corn and cattle country of northeast Texas' Red River valley, there was enough food (Tom grew to burly quarterback build), but the average farm diet was deadly monotonous. It consisted of the three Ms-meal, meat and molasses, the meal being corn meal and the meat fat back or side meat. A related fact-though no one at the time suspected the connection-was that every year the South had 400,000 new cases of pellagra (Italian for rough skin). The victims' feet and hands (sometimes neck and face) burned with red, scaling patches; their tongues...