Word: franked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teaching fellow who wishes to renew his appointment "appeared in the company of his attorney and his department chairman and engaged in a frank exchange of views," according to the Joint Committee's statement which was released last night...
...equivalent was the special watch maintained by Frank Reynolds and Jules Bergman on ABC, Walter Cronkite and Wally Schirra on CBS, and Chet Huntley, David Brinkley and Frank McGee on NBC. The climax was reached when all three networks canceled their regular programs- CBS and NBC for 31 hours starting at 11 a.m. on Sunday, and ABC for 30 hours beginning at noon-to report, contemplate and analyze the space epic. To fill the hours the networks pulled out all the stops and scheduled an impressive array of names. ABC commissioned Duke Ellington to write and perform a piece...
...asked Babe Ruth how he came to hit so many home runs. The Babe grinned and replied, "Because I don't like to run out singles." This season, two other sluggers who hate singles are swinging for the fences: Oakland's Reggie Jackson and Washington's Frank Howard. One out of every four hits that Ruth produced during his 21-year career was a home run; Jackson and Howard have been walloping them at the rate of one in every three...
Nixon's home team also boasts a man whose performance has been worthy of the highest admiration-bespectacled Frank Howard. While Jackson is relatively unprepossessing in appearance, Howard at 33 is absolutely forbidding. One of his home runs once splintered a bleacher seat 530 ft. from the plate. A veteran of seven years with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the 6-ft. 7-in., 260-lb. first baseman was always a prodigious but sporadic long-ball hitter. Only after he was traded to the Senators in 1964 did he begin living up to his potential. In 1968 Howard led both...
...leather company that offers fancy quality at fancy prices. Before flying off to wed Aristotle Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy stopped at Gucci's Manhattan shop to select a brown crocodile handbag. Darryl Zanuck had Gucci copy his favorite 30-year-old valise, and Capucine bought a leather dog carrier. Frank Sinatra recently sent his secretary to pick up a pair of moccasins. Other regular patrons include Rothschilds and Rockefellers, movie stars and magnates from several continents...