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Since most users agree that the stuff is vile-tasting ("It's glubby," said a Dallas dieter, "absolutely nauseating"), many mix it with gin, rum or bourbon. Some freeze it and eat it like sherbet. A Washington lovelorn columnist advised the wife of an alcoholic to spike her husband's gin with Metrecal. One happy user of a similar supplement is Dallas' Specialty Store (Nieman-Marcus) Tycoon Stanley Marcus. "I've lost 15 pounds," says he, "several times." Marcus' specialty is "a kind of Spanish gazpacho soup." He mixes the dieting powder with cucumbers, tomato...
...successful TV production of Madame Butterfly. Soon afterward, when he married Moffo, Lanfranchi took over the handling of her career. His services include the design of Moffo's shoes, clothes and 100 hats. "Without him," says one Italian, "she would still be a promising but struggling singer." ¶Dieter Berger, 40, who met his wife, Soprano Rita Streich, after the war when he was assistant stage manager at the Berlin State Opera, is an operatic husband who struggles to maintain an occupation of his own; he has a small motion-picture company and films TV travelogues where-ever Rita...
...Last Word (CBS, 3-3:30 p.m.). William Saroyan, who wallows in language like a dieter in a delicatessen, is this week's guest etymologist...
Last week, as Carter's files describing the outward calm of revolution's aftermath started to flow out of Baghdad, his rivals were still scrambling to get into Iraq as best they could. Correspondent Daniel F. Gilmore and Photographer Dieter Hespe of United Press International, and NBC's Tom Streithorst, hired a Beirut taxi to drive them the 620 miles between Beirut and Baghdad. When their driver quit at the Syrian border, they hitched a ride on a Syrian potato truck, got another taxi in Damascus. They bought off suspicious Lebanese rebels with cigarettes and bottles...
...flood tide of some of the weepiest (and most popular) German pictures ever made. This was her Seelchenperiode as a leidender Engel (suffering angel), the shopgirl's ideal, when the Schell smile was as famous in Germany as the Monroe walkaway was in the U.S. Maria and Dieter Borsche, with whom she was starred in Es Kommt Ein Tag, were the "ideal couple" of Lieschen Müller (the Jane Doe of Central Europe), whose interest was still further excited by rumors that the passion was even more flaming off the screen than on. In 1952, when Borsche...