Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, battered ex-light-heavyweight champ, decided that he had been wounded by a hair-treatment ad, and demanded balm. "The Thomas Scalp Specialists," Slapsie charged, had labeled him a "pouty puss" and suggested that he looked that way because they couldn't restore his hair. Further, they had published a picture of him as a contrast to a picture of wavy-haired ex-Heavyweight Champ Max Baer. Slapsie wanted...
...long run, says Burnet, the virus varieties with the best chance of survival are those that "live & let live." Many of the viruses that infect man have evolved into forms that produce low-grade infections, often so harmless that the host may not notice them. And a light infection may make human beings immune to attack by a more dangerous variety of the same virus...
...real affairs are told in this book, prised out of him by his son Karl, with the help of some good stiff drinks of a Guatemalan liquor called olla. As the story of a wayward parent, My Danish Father is a lineal descendant of the family-chronicle light biography (Papa Was a Preacher; Mother Wore Tights). Son Karl, a lanky, amiable onetime United Press correspondent in China, made the best-seller lists 18 months ago with a variation on the theme called My Chinese Wife. In My Danish Father, he has mixed a frothy mortar of sex and exodontia. Readers...
Something He Ate. In Detroit, Sword Swallower Tony Marnio gulped a two-foot length of lighted neon tube, glowed at his appreciative audience, bowed, thereupon went out like a light, was hustled to a hospital for removal of the shattered tube...
Oversight. In Honolulu, Light Heavyweight Richard Cunningham jauntily climbed through the ropes into the ring, briskly peeled off his robe, promptly climbed out again, presently reappeared, all set, wearing the trunks he had forgotten the first time...