Word: finks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. George R. Fink, 75, crusty, autocratic U.S. steelmaker, who began as a 10?-an-hour open-hearth laborer, rose to affluence as a steel salesman to Detroit's pre-World War I auto industry, went on to found Michigan Steel Corp. and Great Lakes Steel Corp., then merged them with two others to form National Steel, which under his presidency (1929-54) became the fifth largest U.S. producer; of generalized arteriosclerosis; in Grosse Pointe...
...clock deadline can be awfully useful, another girl commented. "If you're out with a fink, it's a fine excuse for cutting the evening short," she said...
Perhaps the most memorable scene begins with Jones, the typical fink-hero of Thirties comedy, murdering a song, when out of nowhere and for no apparent reason comes a huge collection of the kind of Negroes you don't see any more in the movies. They are ragged, they roll their eyes, they shout "Who dat man?" with religious ecstasy, and they are full of rhythm. At the end of the film they reappear, marching down the racetrack behind the Marx boys, shouting, "All God's chillun got money...
...stripped of privileges, walking a boondock beat-or harried out of a job. Even before he turned to active crime, Jerry Sanford investigated a supermarket safecracking, found a night stick on the floor. "I picked it up and put it in my car. I'm not going to fink...
...pince-nezed P.G. Wodehouse caricature of a corporation president, which is precisely the way ex-Crooner Rudy Vallee (age: 60) plays him. J.B. knits for relaxation; Finch ar ranges to be caught knitting. J.B. warms, bumble-tongued, to his dedicated under ling: "I like the way you thinch, Fink." Naturally, there are booby traps in the corridors of power. There is J.B.'s nephew, Frump (Charles Nelson Reilly), who has the looks and the instincts of a praying mantis. There is J.B.'s mistress, Hedy La Rue (Virginia Martin), a carrot-topped vixen with a 14-karat heart...