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Daily wives grow more unkind and pink, and I must do with what was done when glutton, be content with television--plastic tit--count calories while they invent a better kind of missile...

Author: By Linda G. Sexton, | Title: Grounded | 5/28/1974 | See Source »

HARVARD SQUARE abounds with restaurants, and you can't tell the crepes from the suzettes without a scorecard. So The Crimson presents a special pull-out-and-save section called "A Glutton's Guide to Harvard Square" on pages 25-28. Enjoy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In This Issue | 9/21/1973 | See Source »

...manners. He likes to work on the mash for a while, then refresh his taste buds with a sip of water or a few wisps of hay. From time to time he pauses to tidy the floor of his stall by picking up stray kernels. He is the neatest glutton at the track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wow Horse Races into History | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...Southern textile executive, will become Secretary of Commerce. A transplanted Yankee who graduated from Yale, Dent is nevertheless a regional favorite. He is president of Mayfair Mills, one of the smaller textile firms in South Carolina, and is a leader in the textile industry. He is a glutton for detail in his business. "He not only worked at the machines," says an assistant, "he got underneath the machines and counted teeth on the gears." Dent is a forthright spokesman for an industry that has been the recipient of special White House favors, namely the agreement the President worked out with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The March of Nixon's Managers | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

...high school kids who descended on a Howard Johnson's restaurant in Spring Valley, N.Y. They arrived on chicken night (unlimited amount for $1.69) and devoured 360 pieces of chicken (about 90 lbs.), along with salad and rolls, before vanishing into the night. Another easy-to-spot glutton was the "gigantic man" who waddled into a Sir George's Smorgasbord House branch in the San Fernando Valley. He opened with 2 lbs. of salad, then reduced a chicken to rubble, inhaled two plates of roast beef, and washed it all down with milk. Then he thoughtfully wiped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Importance Of Being Greedy | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

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