Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Editor Milburn ("Pete") Akers, 57, as famed for his highhandedness in a rage as for his openhandedness with a raise or bonus; and big (6 ft. i in., 250 Ibs.), bluff Managing Editor Thomas F. (for Fox) Reynolds, 46, whose barracks-square bellow has earned him the nickname of "Boom-Boom...
With Pete Akers and Boom-Boom Reynolds for brainstormers, the Sun-Times developed a rare knack for offbeat reportorial ventures, such as a hard-hitting and successful campaign to secure the release of a Roman Catholic priest who had been imprisoned for four years by the Chinese Communists. But Reporter Reynolds was unable to win staffers' loyalty, and showed open distaste for the way Larry Fanning and business-minded members of the Sun-Times cabinet ran the paper after ailing Publisher Field had a nervous breakdown last year. Managing Editor Reynolds turned down Field's face-saving offer...
...Listening? The music boom sometimes seems less a cultural awakening than a mammoth assault of indiscriminate sounds on a public that no longer has any place to hide. Amateur psychologists say that the U.S. is becoming afraid of silence. Music in wild profusion volleys forth from phonographs, radios, television sets, jukeboxes. Piped music ushers untold thousands of Americans into the world (hospital delivery rooms), through it (garages, restaurants and hotels), and out of it (mortuary slumber rooms). Millions open their eyes to it, wrap themselves in it as they drive to work, turn out goods and services to a brisk...
...surface of Miami pools (via underwater loudspeakers), to women in slenderizing salons, to celebrators in non-slenderizing saloons. In Philadelphia, worshipers can drop by the Arch Street Methodist Church and adjust a selector to the hymn of their choice. From the highest building in Salt Lake City, Christmas carols boom across the Salt Lake Valley. "I don't want to sound like Scrooge," complained an irate woman, "but damn it, I don't want to go without sleep until December 26th, either...
...Revolution? How long can the record boom go on? Indefinitely, according to the industry's hopeful calculations. The prospect of new technical developments promises to open the market wider than ever. There are now some 40 stereophonic tape labels; Westrex and London Records in the U.S. have announced the development of single-stylus stereo disk systems...