Word: flacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is the world's greatest picture from the world's greatest book," says the reigning flack, as he watches 3,500 body-tanned extras toiling with baskets of plastic bricks up the staircases and setbacks of the Tower of Babel on the set south of Rome. "Here," says the associate producer, "you have the first love story, the first sin, the first murder, the first boat and the first skyscraper." "All these fantastic stories," marvels the prime mover of all, Italian Producer Dino de Laurentiis, "it would be incredible if it weren't the Bible...
...never get within smelling range of his fancy dinner, but diners-out have grown so in sistent on taking home the leftovers on their plates that restaurant supply houses now sell millions of special greaseproof containers for this purpose each year. "The demand is growing so great," says a flack for elegant Ernie's in San Francisco, "that we are now in the process of having a foil-lined box designed for us that will carry the restaurant's crest...
...becoming a parent? For men, the question is largely academic, because it is virtually impossible to be sure of a child's paternity, and most stories of centenarians whose wives produce children deserve nothing more than the knowing smiles they usually elicit. "Maternity," however, says Dr. Harvey Flack, editor of Britain's Family Doctor, "is an indisputable fact, usually witnessed by at least two people . . . And then the blessed event is solemnly recorded by the local registrar...
...Flack kept getting reports of women over 50 who had had babies, and many readers kept asking, "Is this a record?" To answer them, Dr. Flack did a great deal of digging, and eventually he settled on the case of Hilda Gosney, who was born April 19, 1906, at Knottingley in Yorkshire, when her mother (as attested by the birth certificate on file at Somerset House in London) was 53 years, 7 months and 12 days old. Nobody seems to have bothered to ask Mr. Gosney's first name, but it is recorded that...
...achieves a local flavor impossible on a network. In each Romper Room city, the teacher has half a dozen local five-year-olds on the air with her every day, replacing three each week. They learn the alphabet, balance baskets on their heads, shove sand around with toy bulldozers, flack for their own drawings, and learn key facts of nature, such as, say, a whale can get a sunburn and peel. It is a school, not vaudeville, to be sure, but it is a pretty good show nonetheless. Teachers crawl under tables to convince reticent little boys that their...