Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first thought of adopting the Jewish faith when she married her third husband, the late Mike Todd-born Avrom Goldbogen, grandson of a Polish rabbi. Her friendship with Singer Eddie Fisher, a Jew, may have increased her concern with Judaism. About six months ago she began studying under Rabbi Max Nussbaum of Hollywood's Temple Israel...
...commander of the 11th Airborne Division (1950), he qualified after a week as a rated parachutist (five jumps) at 51. In Korea, Lemnitzer commanded the Seventh Infantry Division, won the Silver Star for gallantry in action, in 1955 took over full command of the United Nations Forces, succeeding Max Taylor, who had gone on to be the Army's Chief of Staff...
Shirtsleeved Taylor. Max Taylor's vice chief of staff since 1957, Lemnitzer has been philosophically in tune with Taylor, though opposite in personality; he is a messy-desk man and a shirtsleeve worker. But his achievements in that post are monuments to the Army's perseverance in the age of missiles and space. Lemnitzer's chief political victory: staving off an attempt, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to take away the Army's top missileers-Werner von Braun and associates...
Planner Lemnitzer sees eye-to-eye with outgoing Max Taylor, wants a mobile, hard-hitting and lightweight Army, with more airlift and more manpower. Such wants are exceedingly unpopular in the non-Army reaches of the Pentagon. But whether Lemnitzer gets them, military men are already betting he will be a future chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
...wear hair pieces (also known as rugs, mats, doilies, divots), and that 15 million could use them. Sales were short until makers started advertising hair pieces in major magazines and newspapers five years ago. Since then, annual sales of such bigwigs as Hollywood's Max Factor & Co., Manhattan's House of Louis Feder Inc., and Joseph-Fleischer & Co. (Fleischer will make the Sears toupees from imported hair) have climbed close to $1,000,000 each. Total U.S. sales are estimated at $15 million a year. Says Louis Feder, a wigger himself: "We have put across the idea that...