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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Once Pegasus gets going," Chairman Rose Polk '57 said last night, "We feel sure it will pay for itself. Publishing the first issue isn't too easy, though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advocate Will Publish Paper-back Book Line | 2/10/1955 | See Source »

...show's great weakness-which puts Pennsylvania's rusticities miles behind Oklahoma !'s-is its uninspired score. This ack of musical verve-there isn't too much dancing, either-helps explain why Plain and Fancy has a lot of sociological charm but very little social gaiety; why it smells of apples that seem uniformly destined for pie rather than cider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...concede that excess fat is a factor in many illnesses, they disagree about its causes, relative danger, and effective control among 34 million overweight Americans. At Iowa State College last week, top U.S. obesity experts gathered to exchange the latest news about fat. Among the reports: ¶ Being overweight isn't so much of a health problem as most people think, said Dr. Ancel Keys, of the University of Minnesota. Insurance company statistics linking excessively high heart-disease fatalities to overweight do not mean that every chubby person must reduce, since fat and overweight are not always related...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Facts About Fat | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...ballet. Wandering near Broadway, she avoided the Broadway theater where M-G-M publicized Green Fire with a huge poster of a bosomy girl in sexy green drapery with Grace's head but another girl's body. "It makes me so mad," says Grace. "And the dress isn't even in the picture." Last week MGM's Production Boss Dore Schary summoned Grace to Hollywood to propose a new picture-a western with Spencer Tracy scheduled to costar. After two days' of talk, Grace was still noncommittal; she would wait, she said coolly, until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Girl in White Gloves | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...land, pressured Texas state legislators to pass a bill giving them more protection against the invasion. Said Chairman William Mather of the Minerals Technology Department of San Antonio's Southwest Research Institute: "Uranium is more widely distributed than anyone thought only a few years ago. The problem now isn't to locate it-it's to find an efficient way to recover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Hot Stuff | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

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