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Poker at Seven. The son of a German rabbi, Wolff early developed a crank interest in religion and, at seven, was so critical of the tenets of the Jewish faith that his exasperated aunt threw a poker at him. He examined Lutheranism and found it wanting, tried Roman Catholicism but was expelled from a Redemptorist monastery, and finally entered the ministry of the Church of England...
...unweathered Wayne, with a nice, uneventful face and a chest as big as a wardrobe-on producer's orders, he bares it at least once a program. But unfortunately, Clint, according to the people he works with, is "a mighty mixed-up kid." He is a nature-food crank, demands The Star Treatment at all times. Born in Hartford, Ill.. Norman Eugene Walker quit high school to join the merchant marine, steeplejacked, punched cows in Texas, got married at 21. Van Johnson discovered him working as a deputy sheriff in Las Vegas...
...inducing the shakes in some viewers (Belson keeps his flicker to a safe eight flashes per second). Jacobs controls the sound from a console that is hooked into twelve three-story loudspeakers located about the rim of the planetarium, plus four bass speakers around the room. By turning a crank he can produce rings of sound racing smoothly about the dome's circumference. He can also make his sound tinkle and drip from side to side or leap in front of or behind an audience. Jacobs either uses taped works by other experimental electronics composers or pastes...
Self-Starter. In 1910 a woman driving across Detroit's Belle Isle bridge had engine trouble. Byron Carter, maker of an auto called the Cartercar, happened by, stopped to help, and was cranking furiously away when the motor kicked. The backlashing crank broke his jaw; he later died of complications from the injury. Kettering, an engineering graduate from Ohio State University ('04), by then set up in his own Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. (DELCO), heard of the accident, decided that he could do something to prevent others like...
Nine young men stood in the prisoner's dock in London's Old Bailey and stared up at Mr. Justice Cyril Salmon. Three weeks earlier, armed with iron bars and wooden table legs, crank handles and an air gun, they had piled into a battered car and gone "nigger hunting" in a wild three-hour safari across the Notting Hill district, home of thousands of West Indians. They were, said their lawyer, victims "of the society in which they live...