Word: corking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...geography-book whale; he just sort of stands there to show how big Big John really is.) But in this western the bald theme matters less than the hairy variations. Item: the big bold badman (Lee Marvin), when he wants a shot of redeye, does not tear the cork out with his stubby green teeth-a routine every Hollywood heavy learns in his first villain lesson. Nosirree, he whacks the bottom of the bottle with the flat of his hand and blasts the cork...
Last week Susskind's hostmanship finally blew the cork, deluged the show in fizz and fuzz. The occasion was the seasonal opener of Open End, and the evening's topic was a weighty one: Frank Sinatra's Clan. As panelists, Susskind invited some celebrated tosspots, including Jackie Gleason, Joe E. Lewis, Toots Shor and Actress Lenore Lemmon. When the program opened, it was apparent that most everyone was well fortified, and as it progressed, everybody helped himself to a liquid refreshment camouflaged in a teapot. Susskind, with some help from sharp-tongued Critic Marya Mannes, tried manfully...
...downtown Springfield, Mass., on July 7, 1917-six weeks after John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born, 75 miles across the state and a world apart, in his father's big home in Brookline. Both Lawrence O'Brien Sr. and Myra Sweeney O'Brien were immigrants from County Cork. Myra was a proud, slender woman and a talented cook-her clam chowder, beef stew and soda bread were locally celebrated-who had worked as a domestic before her marriage. O'Brien Sr. was a scrappy redhead, and an up-and-coming real estate operator. By the time young...
...Josef Albers and Hugo Weber. The paneled library with its early 19th century English desk is the only noncontemporary room in the apartment. "I didn't want to make the library modern," says Eunice Shriver, "because I think a library should have the charm of an old room." Cork floors have been laid in the downstairs hall and the dining room so that the three Shriver children and one foster child can haul their toys around and run their electric trains with out damaging the flooring. Explains Eunice Shriver: "You don't ordinarily use your dining room...
...baseball purveyors since 1876: "Today's ball and the one that Ruth hit are identical. Period." Nor has the manufacturing process in Spalding's Chicopee, Mass, factory appreciably changed. Each ball must conform to rigid specifications, set decades ago by the leagues. Its horsehide cover conceals a cork core wrapped in two layers of rubber and 490 machine-wound yards of five kinds of yarn. Even the cover must meet a fine thickness tolerance of .045 to .055 of an inch. The finished ball must weigh in (5 to 5 1/4 oz.) and measure...