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...biggest lines of low-calorie foods is made by Mrs. Tillie Lewis' Flo-till Products, Inc. of California (TIME, Nov. 19, 1951). A year ago she brought out a complete line of low-calorie foods sweetened with saccharin and pectin instead of sugar. The products-ten fruits, four salad dressings, three jellies, four puddings, four gelatins, a chocolate topping-did so well (1953 sales are estimated at $8,000,000) that Flotill will soon add a low-calorie liquid sweetener, ketchup, maple syrup and soup...
...Mysterious Visitors. CIA staffers, who respected but feared Smith, are even more impressed by Allen Dulles, who runs the agency smoothly and with apparently inexhaustible energy. Dulles is in his office every morning by 8 o'clock, often works through till 11 at night. Though he is burdened with the reading of a staggering number of documents and the usual quota of time-consuming conferences (including a weekly meeting of the National Security Council), Dulles manages to see scores of visitors every day, ranging from foreign ambassadors to secret agents. To avoid embarrassing confrontations, Dulles' visitors are frequently...
...best of both worlds. A deformed foot and excess weight stood in his way, so at 19 he grimly started training. "I have lost 18 LB in my weight ... by violent exercise and Fasting ... I wear seven Waistcoats and a greatcoat, run, and play at cricket in this Dress, till quite exhausted by excessive perspiration, and the Hip Bath daily; eat only a quarter of a pound of Butcher's Meat in 24 hours, no Suppers or Breakfast, only one Meal a day; drink no malt liquor, but a little Wine, and take Physic occasionally. By these means...
When the little boy on the stage thus pleaded with the audience for a show of faith, even the most skeptical teen-agers clapped and shouted "Yes!" till the rafters shook, and adults dabbed at their eyes. The "boy" was Maude Adams, who played Peter Pan 1,500 times, always evoking the same response. But one matinee day, nearly half a century ago, as Actress Adams pushed her way through the admiring crowds from the Empire Theater stage door to an electric automobile at the curb, she caught the eye of a small boy. The profound disappointment on his face...
...What am I trying to express?" Empire-Builder Cecil Rhodes would exclaim to his friend, the famous writer. "Say it! Say it!" Then Rudyard Kipling would say it, "and if the phrase suited not, Rhodes would . . . work it over, chin a little down, till it satisfied him." In such a way, the great man finally wrote his will, and set up the scholarships* that he hoped would "encourage and foster . . . the union of the English-speaking people throughout the world." Last week, on the 100th anniversary of Rhodes's birth and the 50th anniversary of the scholarships' founding...