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...with the shape of the human figure has reached from Fletcher's mastication diet of the early 1900s to Elmer Wheeler's Fat Boy calorie counter of the '50s, but no diet fad has ever taken the U.S. so overwhelmingly as the craze for the food supplement Metrecal (TIME, Oct. 3) and its sister brands. Across the nation last week, drugstores and supermarkets were clamoring for fresh carload deliveries to accommodate the growing hordes of Schmoo-shaped addicts who were insisting on guzzling their way to the vanishing point. Cried a happy druggist...
...glubby," said a Dallas dieter, "absolutely nauseating"), many mix it with gin, rum or bourbon. Some freeze it and eat it like sherbet. A Washington lovelorn columnist advised the wife of an alcoholic to spike her husband's gin with Metrecal. One happy user of a similar supplement is Dallas' Specialty Store (Nieman-Marcus) Tycoon Stanley Marcus. "I've lost 15 pounds," says he, "several times." Marcus' specialty is "a kind of Spanish gazpacho soup." He mixes the dieting powder with cucumbers, tomato paste, ground-up peppers, tomatoes and curry powder...
...more and more quips. Only in a San Francisco speech did Kennedy broach a new program. This was a call for a volunteer "Peace Corps" of "talented men and women" who would serve abroad for three years as missionaries of good will for the U.S., as an alternative or supplement to peacetime selective service. "I am convinced," said he, "that the pool of people in this country of ours anxious to respond to the public service is greater than it has ever been in our history . . . Archimedes said, 'Give me a fulcrum and I will move the 'world...
...said. "Frankly I don't want to get in that kind of rat race." Under Thomson, the Kemsley chain, once starchily conservative, has drifted towards the middle of the road. There Thomson is wooing Britain's rising mid dle class. He has added a culture-packed Saturday supplement to several of his dailies, beefed up news columns, hired cor respondents on the Continent to expand foreign coverage, "Looking All the Time." "Actually," said one Thomson employee last week, "the only conservative thing about Thom son is his money." Thomson encourages this view. He tells risque stories at stuffy...
...CRIMSON devoted eight pages to Mr. Titcomb's comprehensive survey of Harvard and Radcliffe theatrical activity from the end World War II to date. On Nov. 19, 1959, his First Supplement, covering the academic year 1958-59, appeared. The following summary constitutes a Second Supplement to the original survey...