Word: tab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...G.O.P. Beauty Queen," Barbara. Sorenson, Radcliffe '51, will appear at the party, and awards will be made to winners of the Club's recent essay contests. Television and radio will keep tab on the national fight all night long...
Sheep & Goats. Nanook cost $53,000 and the bill was paid by a fur company. Louisiana Story cost $258,000 and an oil company picked up the tab, specifying that its name was not to be tagged on the film. For oilmen, the film does its job by showing that oil comes from the sweat and courage of common men, not from an inanimate "industrial octopus." As a subtle piece of public relations, Louisiana Story may inspire many successors...
After a heart-to-heart talk, his legislature formally quit suggesting abdication to the sporting Gaekwar of Baroda (TIME, Aug. 23), who, it said, had managed to run up an estimated $10 million tab on a six-week spree. The chastened gem collector agreed to grant "complete, responsible government" to his 3,000,000 people, and to pay back whatever the state's ministry decided he had spent...
Along about 1:30, the waiter slipped Betty the tab. It came to roughly $2,500. Betty wrote a check, and the party boisterously headed for fresh triumphs at the noisier Copacabana. Betty was having a wonderful time, even though the bottom of her dress was hanging in strips where people had trodden on it. But it was obviously getting too tiring for ladies like her mother. Her mother, Mrs. Robert J. Faulkner, is 95 and does not drink. Leaning on her cane and her daughter, mother was taken home...
...Future. Even with Bocchiccio picking up the tab, Walcott is one of the skimpiest eaters big-time heavyweight boxing has ever known. After a five-mile run he breakfasts on prunes, two eggs, a lamb chop, tea and toast. Then comes a mile walk, a nap until noon (he eats no lunch) and seven rounds' workout in the afternoon. For supper he does not wolf a 3-lb. steak (as Billy Conn used to), but settles for a smaller one. He looks lighter than his 196 Ibs. Most remarkable about him is the fact that he seems...