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...premiere ended, Allen sat with his cheeks puffed out like a man who had just missed his train, shuffled his wad of gum to the side of his mouth, and pleaded: "If you don't like the show, for heaven's sake keep quiet until we get the thing fixed...
...year introduced five low-calorie soups, recently added a line of "substance" low-calorie products, including beef stew, chicken fricassee and a chicken-vegetable dinner. Dietetic Food Co., Inc., which started producing foods for diabetics 26 years ago, now has a full low-calorie line, including candy, desserts, chewing gum and a new ice cream. Sales of high-protein foods, like meat, are up; protein-bread makers are also cashing in on the bonanza. Said an official of Ralston Purina, makers of an old reducing standby, Ry-Krisp: "Our sales chart is something beautiful to watch...
...Army hotel in NÜrnberg, Oatis, nervously chewing gum and chain-smoking, appeared before 100 newsmen for his first press conference. Asked about everything from his imprisonment and trial to his confession and treatment by the Reds, he seemed to find it hard to tell what he had undergone. Said he: "It would be very difficult for me to describe what happened so that I could be understood by anyone not familiar with such proceedings, or with what is done, individually ... If what I was heard to say or was reported to have said during the trial sounded like...
Stuffy still recalls how Eddie Collins of the Red Sox kept a wad of gum on the button of his cap until he had two strikes against him. Rip Sowell of the Pirates would never go to shortstop position without touching third, and Tris Speaker, centerfielder for the Bosox, would construct a neatly drawn line in front of the plate each time he came up to bat. Stuffy has a lot of respect for a good superstition...
...Gum-chewing Jackie has had some adjustments to make. Even in the South, she finds the weather chilly; the food is not her favorite fish & poi. A recent happy discovery, that has added 12 Ibs. to her weight: grits & gravy. But most of all Jackie is homesick for Hawaii, her two daughters, and Chinese-Hawaiian husband Barney, a Honolulu fireman. Barney, on a day-on, day-off routine, helps cook the meals, does the washing, takes cafe of the kids. No golfer, Barney is often privileged to caddy for his wife, who outweighs him by 67 Ibs. The original golf...