Word: gremlin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would like to thank you for the June 4 story on our radio operations; however, a little gremlin must have been at work-and he succeeded in transposing the call letters of our Omaha station. They are KOWH-being derived from the Omaha World Herald, the original owners of the station. On our station in Minneapolis, you batted 50%, one time referring to it as WGDY, another place as WDGY. The latter is right...
...afraid I must be quite sadistic about the whole matter of "old thought control" (the television industry's nickname for IBM) and ask, if uncharitably, why doesn't the clock on its world headquarters here work on schedule? Perhaps a small gremlin with imagination has whispered in the ears of a regimented salesman or punch operator and said "THINK...
...weather, was landed 75 miles away and driven by car to the concert hall. In street clothes, he panted onto the platform an hour and a half late, played two concertos without rehearsal. The crowd of 6,000 cheered him for ten minutes. Said Menuhin: "It was a real gremlin trip." Then he was off for concerts in South Africa and Israel...