Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only jarring note in Wacker's tragic tale of passion was the fact that his beloved is an automobile-a glossy black Mercedes 180. In car-crazy West Germany, justice takes such autoeroticism into sympathetic account. Last week Wacker was preparing to appeal a prison sentence of two years and seven months for "manslaughter with mitigating circumstances." Most Germans would applaud the lightness of the sentence. "My car is a very special friend of mine," explains one car owner. "It's like a human being. I talk to my car. I greet it in the morning...
...account of a recent album he recorded, Frank Sinatra, 50, is in the September of his years. But as the days dwindle down to a precious few, he's decided to make the most of them by marrying Mia Farrow, 21, Maureen O'Suilivan's actress daughter. After keeping steady company with her for more than a year, Frankie took her home to mother and gave her a ding-a-ding ring, nine carats heavy and worth something like $100,000. Said Old Pal Joey Bishop: "It looked like Plymouth Rock had been lowered onto Columbus Circle...
...Jesus and falsely proclaimed him to be God. What intrigues scholars far more, however, is the presence of passages with a strikingly Gospel-like ring, including several previously unknown sayings attributed to Jesus. One such teaching, as translated by Pines: "I shall not judge men nor call them to account for their actions. He who sent me will do this...
Last week Hertz announced that effective Dec. 1, it will switch its domestic advertising account from Norman, Craig & Kummel to Carl Ally Inc. Ally is a four-year-old agency, so small (ten clients, 76 employees) that its annual billings of $11.5 million are hardly larger than those of its new client ($7,000,000-$9,000,000). Board Chairman Carl Ally, 42, along with his two top vice presidents, previously worked for Detroit's Campbell-Ewald, which had the Hertz account from 1934 to 1959. Says Ally of his acquisition: "We needed someone really big to jump...
...there is in Joan Littlewood's World-War-One farrago consists in its showing us in a straightforward way that war is a distinct emotion. One is in love; one is at war. To get that point across a director must give us, infant fashion, a moment-to-moment account of the emotion of everyone on stage, Giggles must end in sucked-in breaths of anguish and operatic voices must descend into fiish market bawl. Everyone on the stage last night seemed to have understood this perfectly, and if they did it is because the director understood it first...