Word: switches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...details of the relationship between a high-fat diet and the high death rate from coronary disease in the U.S., but more and more are coming to a practical conclusion: cut down on the fats without waiting for all the facts. At the same time, they recommend a substantial switch from hard, saturated fats of animal origin to cooking oils of vegetable origin. After Cleveland's Dr. Irvine H. Page suggested that such a diet change was due for wide-scale trial (TIME, Jan. 5), Nutritionist Norman Jolliffe reported that 79 men. aged 50 to 59, enrolled...
...first base, Shepard will play his most promising sophomore, Al Martin. Martin was captain of the freshman team last year and played at second. "We have no experienced first basemen at all this year," Shepard explained, "so we just had to switch Martin in there...
...wife was chained to her home, not only by her duties, but by fear of fire if the wood-and-paper house was left unattended. Rice cooking used to take an hour before serving; now the housewife merely fills an electric rice cooker (cost $10) and turns a switch...
Promptly at 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, Ernest Joiner, 47, editor of the weekly Ralls, Texas Banner (circ. 1,175), planted a cigar beneath his mustache, wrapped a grimy printer's apron about his waist and flipped the switch on the old flatbed press. As the first ink-wet copies of the Banner began to roll, it seemed much like the press run of any of thousands of other small-town U.S. papers. It wasn't. If last week's edition ran true to form, Editor Joiner's own column in the Banner...
Presumably some of the authors with whom the new partners worked before will follow to the new firm. One obstacle to an early mass switch: a clause in standard publishing contracts requiring authors to give their publishers first refusal on their next book. Says Bessie of this clause: "I am not in favor of any devices to tie a writer to his publisher." As an inducement to new authors ("We hope to publish the best we can"), the partners are considering more lucrative terms for writers. One of the trio's projects: a line of high-quality paperbacks...