Word: yourselfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Experience with Frogs' Legs. Foreclosed from the law, De Sapio got into politics. "I never planned politics," he says. "You just find yourself in an environment. You get deeper and deeper. You get activated." As an activated young man De Sapio made himself useful around the Huron Club, long...
TIME again has uncovered heretofore unrecognized evidence on a vital issue: in the biographical sketch of Gussie Busch of our beer nobility, noting decreased sales of beer; attention was called to diversions, including the do-it-yourself movement, made possible by unprecedented income and leisure of the common run of...
Another fallacy: "It is surprising how often you hear people remark behind the back of a patient suffering from neurotic anxieties or neurotic mood disorders, 'If he only pulled himself together-surely he could help it!' . . . Nobody would ever think that an abscess of the gall bladder can...
A Big Secret. Unlike Johnson, Clements makes a fetish of secrecy. Example: as usual, he recently kept his staff members uninformed about where he would be on a weekend trip out of Washington (Capitol Hill staffers deem it important to know where their bosses can be reached by telephone). But...
Cars & Calories. No one knows why. Some brewers say that they themselves have brought on the slump in beer by preaching moderation. Others feel that it is the natural result of changes in U.S. living habits. Once, the saloon was the workingman's club, where he put away large...