Word: hit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sell fire insurance, took to buying up foreclosed property during the Depression when, as he recalled, the "worse things got, the better they were for me." And when things got better for Ahmanson, they were fantastic. Deep in both S & Ls and real estate when the California building boom hit in the 1950s, Ahmanson profited from both sides, selling not only the land but also home mortgages. Sensing yet another change, Ahmanson more recently turned to apartment projects...
...play with an adhesive-wrapped soft drink bottle instead of a club. "I used a Dr. Pepper bottle," says Lee, "because it is smooth, while a Coke bottle is rough. I used the family size, the quart bottle. People would bet me that I couldn't hit the green or make a- putt-and I usually won the bets...
...Dirty Dozen) in London. Oscar Winner Rod Steiger's next big film, The Sergeant, is about a homosexual G.I. who re-enlists to get closer to the boys. CBS Films this month announced that it has bought the rights to The Boys in the Band, an off-Broadway hit in which all the characters are homosexuals. In March, 20th Century-Fox snapped up the rights to Gore Vidal's torture and transvestite novel, Myra Breckinridge...
Such literary facts of life obviously do not scare the gifted Iowa-born Robert Coover. In his second novel, he employs precisely these concepts and what's more, swings for the fences. He does not quite make it, but he deserves at least an extra-base hit for an excellent attempt...
...Evening Post columnist, wrote these 20 essays and articles for a variety of magazines between 1961 and 1967. Most of the subject matter is conventional, perhaps even overworked. Yet it approaches art, not merely because Author Didion has an unforgetting reporter's ear, nor simply because she can hit human vagaries with the quick, poisonous aim of an aroused rattlesnake...