Word: pats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Currently, "Pat" Tanner has little to fear from Hollywood scouts or from critical sharpshooters. For weeks last year he set a record by having three of his books on the bestseller lists at the same time. Since January 1955 the wackiest aunt since Charley's has been Tanner's fairy godmother. With sales of more than 1,000,000 copies in hard and soft covers, Auntie Mame's book, play and screen loot has grossed 36-year-old Tanner most of his first half-million ("After taxes, I have an incrumb of 15? on the dollar...
...bread-and-butter issue with ideological overtones, the house of delegates stood pat. Colorado physicians had asked the house to take a strong stand against physicians' working for salaries (paid by hospitals or group-care plans, including some sponsored by labor unions), and letting an administrator fix the patients' fees. With a growing number of doctors (40%, according to some estimates) now on full-or part-time salary, and with the mushrooming of medical-care plans that introduce a "third party" between the insured and his doctor, the irritation in many medical circles has become acute. Proponents...
...foot broad jumper in James Grant, while the best Yale's Roger Miller has done is 22 feet, 11 inches. The other Crimson freshman, Pat Liles, will be the other broad jumper. In the pole vault, Yale provided Jim Beckman, whose 13 feet, 6 inches, is seven inches better than his nearest English rival...
...doubleheader between the New York Yankees and the Senators. After Papa Nixon explained some of the game's fine points to her, Pat screamed the Senators to victory (5-1) in the first contest, then groaned while the Yanks shut out the locals, 9-0. ∙∙∙ A modern innocent-abroad on his first visit to Europe, Utah's Uraniumillionaire Charles Steen, disembarked in England from the Queen Mary, announced that he had never before rubbed shoulders with so many unsociable snobs as his fellow first-class passengers. "My wife and I were not spoken to during...
...coming American civilization. U.S. bread and circuses -"Hollywood's sleek motion pictures, American newspapers and magazines, soft drinks, dentistry"-already dominate Europe. He cites a ream of historical parallels that do not prove the theory but endlessly restate it. American readers are used by now to the pat European charge of ubiquitous vulgarity, and will bear the tag of "The New Rome" peaceably. But they will bridle at the suggestion that they are about to embrace a Caesar. Author de Riencourt traces what he takes to be an imperial growth of presidential power from the age of Jackson...