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...writing? "Very little," drawled Bill Faulkner affably. "I didn't meet her until I was 50.* Next day, some 175 diplomats, newsmen and Japanese educators waited for the author to appear at Tokyo's Foreign Correspondents Club. But they had to satisfy themselves instead with a filet mignon lunch. Attended by a doctor and nurse. Tourist Faulkner was bedded down at International House, laid low by the heat, lack of nourishment (he abstained from food during his entire transpacific flight), and too many toasts of welcome...
G.A.W. [June 13]-next? G.A.P. (guaranteed annual profit for businesses)? G.A.I. (guaranteed annual income for professional persons and farmers) ? G.A.C. (guaranteed annual commissions for salesmen) ? What about day laborers and migratory workers? Why not a G.W.F.M. (guaranteed weekly filet mignon...
...questions. Had they been promoted? What were the 1955 cars like? Within three hours from the time they splashed across the bridge, the four were aboard The Bataan (once General Douglas MacArthur's personal C-54 transport), on their way to Honolulu. They savored every bite of filet mignon, drank two gallons of milk and leafed through magazines, admiring pictures of a girl they had never heard of named Gina Lollobrigida...
After a light lunch-rare filet mignon, peas, fruit compote, tea-Shelley tried once more to sleep. This time, in an earnest effort to relax, she read a few chapters of her favorite book: Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking (see RELIGION). Refreshed, Shelley sprinted to the 100-yd. title, and a short half-hour later she won the 400-yd. medley championship as well...
WESTERN AIR LINES, which has climbed from near bankruptcy in 1947 to a solid ranking as the tenth biggest U.S. airline, has just completed an $11 million expansion program. Western has bought eight Douglas DC-6Bs, will put them on its luxury flights (filet mignon, champagne, orchids) along the West Coast and to the Twin Cities in hopes of adding another 50 million passenger revenue miles (1954 total: an estimated 407 million...