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Dollie Dimples (in private life, Mrs. Celesta Geyer of Orlando, Fla.) was heavier (555 Ibs.) last year, worked as a carnival fat lady. Then she had a heart attack and retired from show business. Last week, on her 50th birthday, five-foot Dollie was down to 154. Said she: "It's simple. All anyone has to do is diet properly." She did it by cutting down to 800 calories a day (normal U.S. diet: 3,000 calories...
...improvement calls for the old fright elevator to be replaced by a new, automatic one. A five-foot hole must be dug in the cellar to provide space for some of the apparatus involved...
...third period Lowenstein set up another score when he pitched a 20 yard pass to quarterback Gill O'Neil, who caught the ball on the Princeton 18 and went to the eight. On the fourth down the five-foot nine-inch passer hit end Paul Crowley at the extreme corner of the end zone...
...Damned." And so, one day in 1899, at a meeting of educators, Butler proposed his cure for the chaos: set up a central examination board for all the colleges. Harvard's stately President Charles W. ("Five-Foot Shelf") Eliot promptly seconded the suggestion, and the board was born...
...still neutralize the venom of rattlers and moccasins. The first difficulty was to get enough blood out of a king snake. Eventually, Philpot hit upon the simple idea of cutting off the snakes' tails. In this way, he got as much as 40 cc of blood from a five-foot snake and 20 cc or more of serum from the blood...