Word: gremlin
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...Cool World, an adaptation of Warren Miller's novel (TIME, June 15), has a cast of young Negroes re-creating adolescent gang 'life in Harlem. After watching a gremlin-bugged Philadelphia opening (sandwiches flew from plates, breakaway bottles seemed made of high-grade steel, actors slipped and slid on the turntable set), Inquirer Critic Henry Murdock called it a "disturbing play, so close to commentary on a current scene that one wishes it might also have been a more effective play...
...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...
Only two or three of the Padre's boys have ever failed him. And the fame of the Gremlin Club has spread throughout Dallas. Last week, the citizens of Dallas launched a campaign to build the Padre a vast "Kid's World Community Center" for industrial education, vocational education, recreation and study. Sheriff Guthrie raided the Dallas slot machines and turned over the money to the Padre. The Center would cost about a million dollars. To Dallas, the Padre and his work were worth every cent...