Word: cranes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVELYN CRANE Hollywood...
...airtight compartments (there are 3,000 in the ship), where they hammered on bulkheads in the hope of attracting help. One man was trapped for six hours before firemen found him. Some dropped from portholes into the icy East River, where they were picked up by tugboats. A coolheaded crane operator at dockside lifted more than 1,000 men off the flight deck on a portable platform. In one spectacular rescue, firemen ran up a 50-ft. vertical ladder, then stretched another ladder horizon tally from the top to a porthole, and pulled 26 men to safety. Most...
Much of Wall Street publicity is simply old-fashioned drum beating: one West Coast company annually sends its executives east on a speaking tour, mothered by their public-relations men. "By watching the stock tape," says New York Times Financial Writer Burton Crane, "I can usually tell how far east they've reached. About the time they reach Cincinnati, the stock starts jumping and keeps rising until they get to New York." The good word is often spread through press conferences, news releases, well-written company reports. These devices do not bring any protest from the stock exchanges; what...
Married. Lana Turner, 39, who foreshadowed 3-D as the screen's original Sweater Girl; and California Rancher Fred May, 43; she for the sixth time, he for the second; in Santa Monica, Calif. Miss Turner's previous husbands: Clarinetist Artie Shaw; Restaurateur Steve Crane, whom she married twice ("I was lonely. I have to have someone to love, and there was Steve"); Socialite and Tin-Plate Heir Bob Topping ("This is forever"); Film Tarzan Lex Barker...
...CRANE Hastings, New Zealand...