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...Kane Jr., 45, is a familiar figure around Honolulu. For the past 14 years he has been a saxophone player in the municipal Royal Hawaiian Band, and in his gleaming white uniform he is a sight to see as the band goes marching by. Kane (pronounced Connie) is the fattest member of the band. Last year, after a vacation and a carefree feast of poi,* Peter waddled back to band practice fatter than ever. He measured 5 ft. 7 in. vertically, 4 ft. 8 in. around the middle, and tipped the freight scales at 355 glorious pounds. Eying the statistics...
...consumers, higher prices pushed the cost-of-living index up .2% to 114.4% of the 1947-49 average, the first rise in a year. But there were no signs of a slow-up in buying by well-heeled consumers. (Auto workers got the fattest paychecks ever, an average $103.09 weekly - $13.28 more than last year - at General Motors for the first six months.) In a June sampling of 2,000 families, the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center found that 75% thought it was a good time to buy large household items (appliances, furniture, etc.), while more families...
...latest novel by 47-year-old Simone de Beauvoir, Les Mandarins, is now the sensation of Paris (an earlier De Beauvoir novel has just appeared in the U.S.-TIME, Feb. 7). In December Les Mandarins (roughly, The Intellectuals) won France's fattest literary prize, the Goncourt. Novelist Albert Camus and Author de Beauvoir's great and good friend, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, are thinly disguised principals. "These new Platos," one critic wrote, "talk slang like street cleaners, express themselves as sewer diggers no longer express themselves...
...whistle up even a mild breeze of enthusiasm. In Republican state headquarters, where some 60 paid employees bustled about two years ago, a bare 20 were on duty last week. Only 30% of the state ticket's $750,000 budget has been raised-and some of the fattest Republican cats have flatly refused to contribute this year...
After eleven days, the strike of six Manhattan dailies ended last week, and the papers hustled to recoup their ad losses. As a result, the Sunday papers this week were the fattest ever printed any place. The 102-year-old New York Times printed the biggest paper in its history (430 pages, 4 lbs. 14 oz.), including a two-page edition "for the record" for every one of the days missed during the strike, along with four news sections (152 pages) crammed with Christmas ads. The tabloid News printed 532 pages for its six different editions for the New York...