Word: salad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whenever the phone rings, the TV set changes channels. There are only two books in sight: Franny and Zooey and How to Achieve and Maintain Complete Sexual Happiness in Marriage. Two dozen gardenias are delivered to the apartment each week. They float in an urn in the kitchen, a salad bowl in the dining room, a champagne glass in the bathroom, and a wooden bucket beside her bed. "A gardenia is like a free spirit," she says. "Its fragrance cannot be captured. It's like it doesn't want to be tied down and destroyed...
Died. Joseph Schildkraut, 68, Vienna-born actor who won star billing on Broadway in 1921 as the carnival barker in Molnar's Liliom, parlayed his talents into more than 60 screen roles, two dozen onstage, 80 on television, commencing with romantic leads in his salad days (Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Benvenuto Cellini in The Firebrand), evolving into character parts such as Papa Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Experiments with machine-smoked cigarettes showed that polonium attaches itself to smoke particles and may also pass into the lungs with the inhaled smoke in the form of gas. The amount of polonium in tobacco, as in a tossed green salad, would be negligible if, like the salad, it passed quickly through the system. But the polonium-bearing smoke appears to get trapped in the tissues and crevices of the airways, say Drs. Radford and Hunt. Because of this trapping, they suggest, polonium builds up to concentrations that are high enough so that its radioactivity could begin the process that...
...Roman Catholic Little Brothers of the Poor dissent in every respect, except that the main dish must be traditional. Last week they started their dinner for 350 of the city's aged and indigent by serving hot rum punch. They embellished the meal itself with lobster salad, cake, and compote of fruit flambé, expertly cooked by the Little Brothers. They served French champagne, and the 117 dozen roses used as table decorations were given away to the guests afterward...
...annals of international finaglers, first place is still held by Swedish Match King Ivar Kreuger, whose machinations in the 1920s caused hundreds of investors to lose a total of $500 million. The Great Salad Oil Scandal recently set off by pudgy Tino DeAngelis (TIME, Nov. 29 et seq.) stands to cost the banks and companies involved upwards of $100 million - putting DeAngelis second only to Kreuger...