Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Was It All About? Those familiar with Winchell's vindictive memory and oblique methods of revenge had no trouble guessing that his real target was not Chandler's but its unctuous disk jockey, Barry Gray, 36, whose name Winchell never mentions in the attacks. Gray, who mixes only an infrequent record with his pretentious, long-winded, post-midnight "discussion program," broadcast by Manhattan's WMCA, committed an unpardonable sin last year. He turned his microphone over to New York Daily News Columnist Ed Sullivan for an hourlong, scathing attack on Winchell (TIME, Jan. 7). Those...
...Winchell got his chance: Chandler's was named as one of 13 New York restaurants which the OPS accused of violating price ceilings. Hearst's Journal-American TV Columnist Jack O'Brian lent Colleague Winchell a helping hand with thinly disguised items about a certain "fishface" disk jockey, whom he accused of every crime from welshing on his debts to collecting graft to finance a trip to Europe...
...week's end, Winchell quoted one of O'Brian's columns to pose a question to his readers: "One disk jockey so far hasn't discussed the fact that he wrote for the Daily Worker under a nom de Commie." Winchell had no intention of giving away a hot scoop like that by mentioning a name. The description fit nothing known about Gray, but if readers wanted to think Winchell and O'Brian were talking about Gray, it was apparently all right with them...
...stepped Striker Paul Gruber, a hefty (6 ft. 2 in., 240 Ib.) farmer from Utzenstorf. He carried a murderous loft. Stecken, a whippy hickory shaft with a heavy cylindrical head. Eyeing the small (diameter 2½ in.) hard-rubber disk perched on an elaborate tee made of two upcurving steel rails,* Gruber took aim, lowered his stick twice, then drove with all his might. The Hornuss buzzed off into...
...gravitational lens." The gravitational field around it will be so intense that it will bend all light coming near it. Some rays, passing close, will be turned back on their tracks. Others will be turned less sharply. The result in the telescope's eye will be a faint disk of light made up of small contributions from all the stars in the universe. This blended light should be possible to identify with a spectroscope...