Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Dec. 17 issue states, the New York Coliseum had a fine, spectacular showing of new cars, all presented very attractively. Like several other visitors I spoke with, I found that none of them suited me. The reason is very simple: I cannot fit inside. My head touched the ceiling, and my legs would not fit under the steering wheel with enough room to operate the foot pedals. In some cases I was unable to see a safe distance through the contorted windshields. True enough, my 6 ft. 6 in. height is a contributing factor, but a comparatively short...
TIME'S Dec. 24 review of Baby Doll is sickening. When you say an admitted stream of carnal suggestiveness is fit for your readers' attention because it is expertly served up, you insult your reader's moral integrity by implying that he has none. Elia Kazan may have had puritanic motives, but look at the lewd billboard and newspaper ballyhoo that sings the seductive praises of Baby Doll. Who's kidding whom...
...Harvard friend who has seen Gaitskell address public meetings of his Leeds constituents expected the former economics professor to have trouble communicating to his union following. "But to the contrary, he seemed to fit in perfectly," the friend observed, "looking and acting the part more of a traveling salesman than an Oxford don. Gaitskell is a very bright and shrewd man," he continued, "combining all the sharpness of a brilliant, well-trained civil servant with the light touch of a hearty beef-eating Englishman...
Night of the Hunter. In Manitowoc, Wis., Rabbit Stalker Raphael Rusch was fined $100, agreed to pay $250 damages after he chased his target through the woods, lost it, took aim in a fit of pique, assassinated Farmer Arthur Wegner's horse...
MARCH. Perry Miller will be seen leaving the Yard brandishing a harpoon. Elvis Presley will be refused admission to Harvard. The Deans will claim that he did not fit regional distribution requirements. The first space satellite will be launched successfully and promptly shot down. The Soc Rel Department will disband, saying "We no longer feel loved...