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...space to peddle or promote their wares, Walt Disney and his businessman brother Roy O. Disney quickly upped their sights, raised millions by leasing plots to 55 companies. Pepsi-Cola came in to operate Frontierland's Golden Horseshoe soft-drink saloon; American Motors Corp. shows Circarama movies; Pablum recently opened a brightly decorated "baby-changing and feeding station" complete with a trained nurse who hands out free disposable diapers, safety pins, bottles...
...Ellen Koenig was a pretty, auburn-haired baby who seemed normal in every way when she was born in Cincinnati on Aug. 29, 1954. and she apparently throve on formula and some Pablum. At six months she seemed insatiably hungry. Still, her mother, a registered nurse, did not worry until 15 months, when Jo Ellen became abnormally irritable and puffy-faced. Doctors suspected leukemia-tests were negative. They thought of kidney disease-negative. Heart trouble-Jo Ellen was treated for three weeks and got no better. Finally they called in Blood Specialist Marion Eugene Lahey...
...true. If you like food, you'd better try Adams. But don't be disappointed if you find yourself living with a lot of fat slobs. There is no unity to Adams outside the dining hall, but the food never sinks to the level of the dogmeat-and-pablum projectiles the central dining halls call "Salisbury steak." And Irene is the friendliest hostess...
...young, and supported by dogged energy rather than a bubbling gaiety. In mid-film, Jack Lemmon adds some bracing laughter to the show with a slapstick attempted seduction of Betty Garrett. In this scene, it is as if someone put a jolt of fine brandy into a pot of Pablum. But once Lemmon is gone, Eileen grinds on with its predictable succession of songs and dances...
...wife and her friend Wynter, a commando officer in North Africa. But despite prolonged emotional twitching and teasing, Author Shapiro keeps his lovers' mental fig leaves so firmly in place that they sin only in their minds. To a love affair which proves to be as innocuous as Pablum, Author Shapiro adds some government-issue characters from the standard stockpile of all war novels. There is the hero's uncouth, hell-for-leather pal who "buys it" on Dday. There is the bullet-spitting ex-auto salesman, bucking for general, who comes drunkenly apart at the seams once...