Word: fryer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Times. His first novel, a long (616 pages) and intimate look at the life of Senators and Presidents, is in its eighth printing. So far it has sold 285,000 hardback copies ($5.75 each), plus 2,800,000 in a Reader's Digest condensation. On Broadway, Producers Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr plan to stage Advise and Consent next autumn. Counting the Preminger deal, Drury could gross more than $500,000 from his book. At week's end New Novelist Drury announced he would resign from the Times, to write more books and become the Reader...
...sold as a squab. At a pound it is widely sold as a Rock Cornish game hen (the game hen is an amiable conceit, but it does have Plymouth Rock and Cornish strains among its ancestors). At 2 Ibs. it is a broiler; at 3 Ibs. it is a fryer. Above 3 Ibs. a painless, chemical desexing of the cockerels yields roasting capons, sometimes called caponettes, weighing...
...Nonfat Fryer. For people on a low-fat or low-calorie diet, Chicago's Pam Products put on the market a nonfat soybean extract that can be sprayed into the frying pan from an Aerosol container, used to fry meat, fish, potatoes, etc., without any shortening. The extract will permit people on a diet to eat more; an egg, which contains 70 calories, usually picks up another 55 when fried in shortening. Price...
...Foremost, perhaps, is: "Throw away the skillet and the deep-fat fryer." Dr. Jordan's aversion (she calls it a phobia) to frying is that it incorporates the fat more securely in the basic food so that the stomach has to work harder to digest it. Another injunction has been dubbed "Nap and nip." Hard-pressed executives, Dr. Jordan holds, should have a quiet lunch, free from stressful business talk, and a cat nap afterward; then they should have one or two highballs (she believes in tall, diluted drinks, is dead set against cocktails) to relax them before dinner...
Haste Saves Waist. In Lake Forest, Ill., the Lake Forester carried an ad: ''Dieting forces sale of Mixmaster, electric deep-fat fryer and electric popcorn maker; all good condition...