Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, determined pursuer of the vitamin-filled life, had no such qualms. He not only celebrated his 81st birthday by making a parachute jump at Dansville, N.Y., but got in a plug for rich, natural foods. He snapped: "You could never jump with a parachute at 81 if you consumed that damned white flour...
...Mary Sangenino, 52, of The Bronx, had troubles too. She got on the subway with a box of cookies and a brown paper bag containing her life savings-$12,500 in bills. Then she got so interested in a comic book that she left the bag behind when she got off at New Lots Avenue, Brooklyn. That was the last...
...authority of any segment in all U.S. labor. But they have a boss who is much more than a boss. To them, busy, bumptious little David Dubinsky is leader, father, prophet and demigod. To his I.L.G.W.U., they display furious devotion. It is a school, a welfare clinic, a social life and a political mentor. It is, as some of them say, a way of life...
There were also "the girls." Earnest, gregarious, romantic, thousands of Jewish and Italian girls swarmed into the shops. Huddled in crowded misery that was unlike the village life they had known, they seized on the union for social contacts, and demanded of it the better life America had promised. A woman's local established the first union vacation spot in 1915, in Pine Hill, N.Y. They organized little amateur theatricals and uplift courses that ranged from parliamentary law to mandolin playing...
...Many Watches? Dubinsky's life is the union. Immensely likable, he is cordial to everyone, but intimate with no one. He takes home to dinner anybody he happens to be working with. Home is what he calls "a good proletarian penthouse" on unfashionable West Sixteenth Street. (Says Dubinsky: "I never tell reporters, because right away they say, 'aha, a labor leader lives in a penthouse,' as though a labor leader shouldn't be comfortable.") He pays $190 a month rent, lives there with his wife, their divorced daughter and her child Ryna, who is the apple...