Every Happy Fat Man And The Envy Of Dieting Friends
HAL BOYLE surveys the cultural jibes against overweight individuals from ancient to modern times. He cites medical cautions from Hippocrates, Shakespearean irony, proverbs, and wit from Irving Shaw and Lithgow, concluding dieters risk moral peril while the fat man clings to simple pleasures.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Pal
Hippocrates
Medicine
Christ
Washington Irving
Bernard Shaw
William Lithgow
Paradise
Meg O Day Hen Lays 362 Eggs in Flemington
Meg O Day a Leg horn hen in Flemington New Jersey laid 362 eggs in 365 days. The note compares Swifts as the fastest birds clocked at 200 miles an hour.
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Meg O'Day
Flemington
N. J
Jimmie Rodgers Honeycomb Rise From Humble Roots
The rise of Jimmie Rodgers from Camas Washington to fame with Honeycomb, after serving in Korea and performing across California, Nashville and New York, led to Roulette Records discovering him and recognizing the song as a recent folk creation by Bob Merrill. The piece also notes Milton Berle’s album Songs My Mother Loved and a roundup of recent jazz and vocal releases from major labels, highlighting artists like Duke Ellington, Judy Scott, Johnnie Ray and Ella Fitzgerald.
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New York
Jimmie Rodgers
Honeycomb
Washington
Korea
Tennessee
California
Rodgers
Camas
Wash
Air Force
Nashville
Hugo Pieretti
Luigi Creatore
Roulette Records
ASCAP
Bob Merrill
Merrill
Milton Berle
Milton
Pat Boone
Dot
Tony Bennett
Columbia
Sue Raney
Capitol
Robbin Hood
MGM
Judy Scott
Decca
Doris Day
Walter Schumann
RCA
Stan Freberg
Johnnie Ray
Duke Ellington
Shakespeare
Ellington
Hollywood Bowl
Ella Fitzgerald
Louis Armstrong
Verve
Bobby Brookes
Dick Carey
John Plonsky
Golden Crest
Debussy
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Julius Caesar
John Bunyan
the Record Shop
S. Main ST
Westinghouse
Braiser Blancher
Tussy
Bufferin
Loy
Jergens
Ipana’ Plus
CPZ
Fitle Teal
Eckenia
WOOLL
T. V
Aeco
Shulton
Sjacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran
Eckerd
Cochran
Dazey
Philco
Cial
General Electric
Jacq
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