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Marcel Cerdan, middleweight boxing champion of Europe, had a handicap to face in the U.S.; European boxers have a long-standing habit of being put to sleep or putting the customers to sleep. But when Marcel promptly pounded out a decision over George Abrams (TIME, Dec. 16), promoters began to look him over with eyes not only wide, but gleaming...
Nonetheless, the Mayo men, noting that more & more people are drinking lemon juice, believe that concentrated lemon drinks should be discouraged as a daily habit...
...Bachelor Mark became known as "Easy Mark," a soft touch for a loan. Trade also handed out plenty-for hospitals, churches, parks, etc., blithely putting Mark down for half of each donation but always getting just his name on the cornerstones. Trade was the penny-watcher. Except for his habit of taking the waitresses from their plant restaurant for a daily ride in his surrey (later a Fiat), he ran everything with Scottish austerity. As a result of his insistence that all paper work be done on the backs of old envelopes, Smith Brothers kept no records for 65 years...
...Broken Habit. The speech over, the President was off for a brief rest prescribed by his doctor. He went straight to the airport, boarded the Sacred Cow for a flight to the Key West naval base.* His first day there, the President began wiping out the faint traces of strain from his Mexican trip and the feverish conferences on Greece by breaking a habit: he got up at 8 a.m. instead of his usual...
...more machines help on other problems. The flashmeter throws a word on a screen for an instant, testing readers the "aircraft recognition" way. The metronoscope flashes sentences in phrases; it breaks the word-by-word habit and the rereading habit, builds rhythmic reading...