Word: robustly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young & Rubicam President Raymond Rubicam, who changed it into a trade weekly which went after paid circulation and advertising in earnest. Gradually he turned Tide over to its employees, who sold some of their shares to Manhattan's Modern Industry magazine two years ago. But the competition from robust Printers' Ink (circ. 23,793) and Advertising Age (circ. 24,201) was tough to buck. Four months ago, its owners switched it from weekly to fortnightly to keep costs down. Last week they sold Tide (circ. 14,000) to Billboard, a trade weekly of show business, which hopes...
...knew that he loved her when he took her on a 20-mile hike; they had barely covered half the distance when he popped the question. When she said yes, "he stood on his head for me for one minute and four seconds." So began (in 1913) a robust alliance that was to flourish until 1930, when they separated. Dumbbells and Carrot Strips is her story of those years, and if it is richer in beet juice than any other biography of Bernarr Macfadden, this is because no one has more to reveal about a man than his former wife...
...contrast to his robust lecturing, Nash leads a quiet home life. He bought a modern home in Lexington last year, and now devotes his spare time to gardening. Nash finds that frequent revisions of his lectures seriously cut into gardening time, and his project to raise carrots for his two children has largely been abandoned to the local rabbits. Although his material varies to suit each year's students, the last lecture of his courses is always of standard brilliance. Last year, for instance, Nash created an iodine smoke screen to cap his performance in Chemistry 2. The purple vapors...
This hopped-up pace, which gives him an income of about $150,000 a year, would flatten many a man more robust than 135-lb, O'Connor. But, except for a tendency to colds, Donald seems to thrive on it. In addition to becoming a TV fixture, he has signed contracts with Fox, Paramount and Universal-International to do six movies during the next two years (one of them: White Christmas, in which he will co-star with Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney). Says Donald with satisfaction: "It's great, being busy. After you spend 26 years entertaining...
...create an incident, Bachelor Smith took to mincing about his apartment on tiptoes. After six years of tiptoeing, the habit had become so natural that he was surprised, and impressed, by the routine noises made by some friends to whom he once sublet his apartment. Said Smith, a robust mechanical engineer: "I decided that my timorous manner was unnecessary. I decided to live a more normal life...