Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the help of William Shakespeare, who supplied the chief character: Falstaff, played by Welles. Through the centuries, most actors have had to stuff padding under their tights to play the renowned clown. Welles, at 51, remains unique; he is probably the first actor in history who appears too fat for the role...
Died. Charles Howard, 69, a fat, hearty apple grower whose unshaken belief in Santa Clans led him in 1937 to start a school for St. Nicks in Albion, N.Y., teaching all-round jolliness, beard upkeep and child psychology, all of which he practiced himself in Manhattan as Macy's incomparable Santa for 15 years; of a pulmonary embolism; in Newfane...
...dropped out of the two-mile race about half-way through because of a pain in the calf. Since Harvard didn't need the points. Hewlett didn't want to risk injury before the Yale meet and the Heptagonals. But Dave Allen added four points to Harvard's already fat lead as he took second...
...Thornton anticipates a big expansion in the banking business; with Diebold locked in, a Litton salesman will be able to outfit a whole bank, from typewriter to vault. For its part, Diebold expects to use Litton's broad technology and fat treasury to expand. Under the terms of the deal, Litton will not have to dilute its common stock; it plans to exchange 1,118,000 "participating preference" shares for Diebold's 2,601,000 common shares. Though the preference shares are convertible into Litton common on a one-for-one basis, Diebold investors will be induced...
...hospital ward, where the gauze bandages turbaning every head suggest that the patients all have something wrong up there. In the case of Patient Edwin Spindrift, a Ph.D. and lecturer on linguistics, this seems to be indisputably so. His libido is dead. Ink smells like peppermint to him, hot fat like violets. At the least provocation, Spindrift takes off on obsessive journeys to the roots of words. "What's the difference between 'gay' and 'melancholy'?" asks the doctor. "One is monosyllabic, the other tetrasyllable," Spindrift begins. "One is of French, the other of Greek derivation...