Word: chess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the credit, if that is the word, for the trend belongs to Songwriter Billy Davis, 38, a former singer (The Four Tops) and record executive (Chess Records) who is now a vice president and music director of Manhattan's McCann-Erickson advertising agency. Davis collaborated on the 1971 Coca-Cola commercial, which as a single, I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing, sold over a million records. He and Dottie West wrote the current Coca-Cola hit, and he and McCann-Erickson Creative Director William Backer wrote the lyrics for the Miller beer single...
...still retains his thick German accent, lives alone in a six-room town house in Washington's Rock Creek Park, and spends so little time there that friends say only the library looks used. He has retained his taste for rich foods, his interest in chess and his tendency to neglect his appearance. He still puts in 18-hour days and expects his aides to do the same. One of those aides, in fact, tells of laboring until midnight on a position paper that Kissinger then handed back with a request that it be improved; another midnight, another version...
...novel combines a Daschiell Hammett-like style of describing criminal relationships, and Raymond Chandler's brand of hard-edged realism. The plot unfolds in layer after layer of bluntly detailed incidents. Each incident is as carefully regulated as a move in a chess game, for check and mate means pay-off, jail, or death...
...stayed in Chicago until 1959, writing, performing, and producing records for Chess Record Company. He produced records for such performers as Robert Nighthawk, Otis Rush, and Jimmy Weatherspoon...
...wall to wall carpeting, mansion sized bedrooms and an invisible crew. Like Sleuth's manor, the yacht is stocked with games. On seeing the living room for the first time, Dyan Cannon remarks, "Who designed this place -- Parker Brothers?" Ross dots the boat with dartboards and three dimensional chess sets, but Sleuth much better exploited the idea of the games player. Sheila's boat is a sorry second...