Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Painter John Decker may score in Fowler's book for his good cooking, but on the day I visited his studio he had an open can of some foodstuff . . . the blue and white label read "Fix FOR HUMAN USE." It was issued by the WPA. The dark walls of Decker's depressing menage were covered with "brown-sauce" paintings-one of which was Queen Victoria with a W. C. Fields head [see cut]. Another, after Da Vinci, had Fanny Brice's face...
...peace in the Middle East. From the Jordan delegates sitting on his left and the Israelis on his right came a steady barrage of accusations and complaints. Commander Hutchison, chairman of the U.N. Mixed Armistice Commission, tried patiently to winnow the facts from the frenzy. The problem was to fix responsibility for the cold-blooded massacre of eleven Israelis at Scorpion's Pass (TIME, March...
...Bradley, disappointment was no stranger. The Braves reached the final of both the National Collegiate and National Invitation tournaments in 1950, only to lose in both to C.C.N.Y.'s "Cinderella Team." Later, as it turned out, both teams were dishonored by the fix scandals. Last season, after a Bradley Boosters Club had been too free with its money favors to Bradley players, the Braves were suspended from tournament play by the N.C.A.A. La Salle, on the other hand, won college basketball's top trophy the very first time it had ever qualified for the tournament...
...Federal Trade Commission last week dropped monopoly complaints against Joseph E. Seagram & Sons and Schenley Industries after they signed consent decrees. Under the agreements, subsidiaries of either of the companies are forbidden to band together to fix prices or otherwise restrain trade among themselves, even though it might be all in the family. The ruling means that price-fixing agreements by different branches of a corporation are legal only if those branches are set up as divisions, as in General Motors, not as separate corporate subsidiaries...
Money from Home (Hal Wallis; Paramount), in which Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis try to fix a horse race, is pretty funny for a minute or so. The horse they are betting on gets drunk and cannot make the post until the boys rush forward with the black coffee and bromo. Otherwise, it is the usual ill-swizzled Dean & Jerry cocktail, with most of the jokes settling quickly to the bottom. Dean: "Ain't he quaint?'' Jerry (haughtily): "You mean, isn't he quisn...