Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing his chain of papers needed, said shrewd little Roy Howard, was a change of pace. The Scripps-Howard chain had a full stable of heavy and medium-heavy thinkers. What was needed was lighter, belt-level reading matter-about meat, sex, the movies. Result: by last week 30-year-old Robert C. Ruark, a balding, Southern-accented graduate of the sports pages, was the country's fastest-climbing columnist. His readily readable pieces, studded with flip and flossy phrases, were running in 19 Scripps-Howard papers and 20 others. He was making $500 a week...
Brawn with a liberal dash of experience is the recipe that's going to start Kirkland House off to a victory in the opener of the House gridiron circuit with a lighter Dunster House eleven this afternoon. At least that's the way Captain George Blanchard of the Deacon aggregation, who bolsters up the line at guard, views the situation...
Hazel Forbes, who rose from Ziegfeld glorification on Broadway to toothpowder riches (Dr. Lyon's, inherited from her late second husband Paul Owen Richmond), lost her purse in a Hollywood nightclub. The purse's contents: a diamond-studded gold cigaret lighter, a diamond-studded gold cigaret holder, a diamond-studded gold compact, a diamond-studded gold lipstick-&-perfume set, a diamond-studded pillbox, a solid gold scratch pad and pencil, a diamond-&-gold coin purse, a diamond-studded gold money clip, $500 in cash, and 40 solid gold keys. But no tooth powder...
Last week Dewavrin, stripped of rank and honors, and some 70 pounds lighter after four months in jail on unspecified charges, was recuperating in a clinic near Paris (see cut). His case had not been brought before any court, nor was it likely to be. "L'Affaire Passy" had begun to smell like "L'Affaire Dreyfus...
...chromosome material), it must be slightly heavier. The problem, therefore, is to separate "biological isotopes." Harvey, citing a centrifuge method which has separated the light and heavy parts of sea urchins' eggs, thinks it can be done. His proposal: use a special centrifuge to whirl the sperm; the lighter male-producing sperm will rise to the top, can be skimmed off and planted by artificial insemination...