Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Puckered Bernarr Macfadden, 79, settled down at his Physical Culture Hotel in Dansville, N.Y. for a delayed honeymoon with his blonde bride Jonnie, 42, who showed newsmen her current reading assignment: How to Attain and Practice the Perfect Sex Life. "I can't imagine anything more exciting than being married to Bernarr Macfadden," said...
...paused in his earnest degree-dispensing and beamed delightedly as Graduate Jules Samuel Levin stepped forward. Stocky young (20) Jules Levin of Miami Beach, Fla. is quite possibly the outstanding college graduate of 1948. In four years at notoriously tough Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he had racked up a perfect 5 (straight A's)- the first in M.I.T.'s 83-year history. His modest explanation: "I picked up a little momentum...
Weather & Orchids. For his safety record, Stan Kennedy thanks the weather (usually perfect for flying) and a heavy emphasis on maintenance, which works so smoothly that planes are often "turned around" at airports in five minutes. Moreover, his 54 pilots, most of them hand-picked war veterans headed by ex-Navy man Charles I. Elliott, know their routes as well as motormen. (One of them breaks the monotony of the same old daily run by scattering orchid seeds from his plane...
...General Omar Bradley to Dorothy Dix. He spent seven years on How to Stop Worrying. "Let me warn you," says he, "you won't find anything new in it, but. . . you and I don't need to be told anything new. We already know enough to lead perfect lives . . . The purpose of this book is to . . . kick you in the shins . . ." Indeed, Author Carnegie's assault on worry is irresistible...
Simple Answer. In Harrison, Ark., Mrs. Hannah Green, 106, explained how she has kept her perfect health: by "never being sick...