Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pinkerton's is promoting a $449 microwave unit called Minuteman II that rings like a fire siren when anything breaks its circuit. Sears, Roebuck's $99.50 Deluxe Ultrasonic Intruder Alarm blinks on lamps and sets off a shrieking noise if tripped; for a few dollars more a companion attachment outside the house will add a howling horn to the cacophony. Advertisements for security products often play on the public's fears of the prowly world of burglars, narcotics addicts and psychotics. Alarm-tronics Engineering of Newton, Mass., claims in its ads that its earsplitting electronic screamer "overcomes...
...land directly north of Alaska. Between 1909 and 1912, Mikkelsen led a mission in search of the diaries of another brave Dane, Mylius-Erichsen, who had died while exploring the northeast corner of Greenland. After recovering some of the ill-fated explorer's papers, Mikkelsen and a single companion were marooned for two years...
...this hermetic atmosphere, two young rabbis were overheard discussing whether to make a side trip to the nearest hamlet, five miles away. "But Rabbi," said one, "nobody lives down there, not even Eskimos." Replied his companion: "I just want to see if the real world still exists...
DOROTHY COLLINS. Remember her? The singing companion of Snooky Lanson on television's Your Hit Parade. The put-on artist of Candid Camera! A local talent contest winner from Windsor, Ont., she was discovered by her first husband, Bandleader Raymond Scott, 17 years her senior. Her second, Tony Award Singer Ron Holgate (1776), is ten years her junior (she is 44). She has two children by her first marriage, one by her second. All three live with the Holgates in a pleasant Dutch colonial house in New Jersey. Dorothy's homebody role in Follies, like Alexis Smith's elegant...
...cannot benefit by it. A black girl, defiantly defensive, insists in a tantrum that she once tried to get close to her father, failed, and now will just go on "kissing his ass." The film ends with a shot of her head resting on the shoulder of a companion, face turned away from the rest of the group...