Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Gene Austin, 71, "granddaddy of all crooners," who sold more than 86 million records in the era of crank-up phonographs; of lung cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Austin began his career as an entertainer by pounding bawdyhouse pianos. After a stint in vaudeville, he moved to the recording studios of RCA Victor, where his drawling tenor made hits of tunes like How Come You Do Me Like You Do? and Ramona. His biggest success, My Blue Heaven (1927), became his theme song...
...them now, creating fewer openings for new graduates. Litton Industries, for example, has cut its intake of graduates to half of 1968's level. "Getting the best people is easier for us now," says Bob Gray, director of corporate industrial relations. "Any time we want to crank up a project, we can do it with experienced people readily available...
Uneasy Neighbors. Within 15 minutes after the Greenawalts settled down together to watch the show on their home set, their phone began to ring with crank calls. By the next day they had logged 100 whisperers, screamers and name callers. On the third day the hate mail began to come in. "Watch out for your kids," warned one letter...
...come into Kennedy's office at the rate of 1,000 a day. He receives roughly twice as much mail?2,500 to 3,000 letters weekly?as any other Senator. Most of it is routine, but there is also a flood of hate letters. Some of these are crank notes ("Listen, lover boy"), but the serious "threat" mail is turned over to the Secret Service; there is an average of two death threats per week. Kennedy rarely if ever sees them...
...effectiveness of the show and try to rejigger it accordingly as the season progresses. The same spirit of self-criticism appears on air. Constantly carping at the teachings of other characters and at the idiosyncrasies of the English language is an off-camera omnipresence named J. Arthur Crank...