Word: gingering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most sensational growth has been in low-calorie soft drinks; sales rose from zero to 5,000,000 cases in one year. Pioneer in the field was Kirsch's Beverages, Inc. of Brooklyn, which started producing No-Cal ginger ale last year, aiming at an annual market of 100,000 cases; instead, Kirsch's sold half a million, added four other flavors, and this year expects No-Cal sales to top 2,500,000 cases. More than 50 companies are now in the field...
...cafe society, Broker J. (for James) Arthur Warner, 52, has long cut quite a figure. A wavy-haired frequenter of Manhattan's Stork Club and other elegant pubs, he numbered among his friends such leading lights as Walter Winchell, Ginger Rogers and Cinemogul Joseph Schenck. By cafe society standards, Warner really arrived two years ago when his second wife, a beauteous Hollywood B-movie player named Kay Buckley, walked out after exactly 21 days of marriage, with a wedding present of $100,000 in cash...
...Band Wagon (M-G-M). Ginger may come and Rita may go, but Fred Astaire goes on forever. In this, his 28th cinemusical, the patriarch (54) of hard-shoe goes on right handsomely with the help of a new partner who can fill the shoes-and the nylons-of the best of Astaire's former dancing partners. Cyd Charisse is a sinuously lovely sprout who has elegantly survived the trampling of regiments of chorus boys in a half-dozen movie ballets. Now, with Astaire at the hip, she finally has a full-fledged dancing-and-speaking part, not that...
...Lozenges containing benzocaine and trade-named Flavettes helped three-quarters of his patients cut down smoking and still keep their weight down, Dr. William L. Gould of Albany. N. Y. reports. Since the lozenges also contain licorice, ginger and oils of anise, wintergreen, coriander and cloves, they naturally spoil the appetite for tobacco and food as well...
...Married. Ginger Rogers, 41, durable blonde cinemactress (Kitty Foyle, Monkey Business); and Jacques ("Jacky") Bergerac, 26, French cinema novice who met Ginger in Europe last summer, followed her to Hollywood and an M-G-M contract; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Palm Springs, Calif...