Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this spring, Boston Manager Dick Williams says, "Tony regained his touch and started stinging the ball. He's looked like the old Conig." Conigliaro himself says he can now "get his eye on the spin of the ball," recently proved it by whacking a single and a home run to lead the Red Sox to a 4-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. "Tony never doubted that he could do it," says Williams, "and he made believers out of all of us." Tony has made such a believer of Williams, in fact, that the Red Sox manager will start...
...book and a new record album in countless guest spots. Some of his merchandising and stunts are done largely for fun. He was the prankster who masterminded the parody presidential campaign of his Smothers show colleague, Pat Paulsen. He is now redecorating the guest quarters of his Los Angeles home (he is divorced) into a stereotypical motel room-"just so people will feel at home." He has already laid in a selection of travel folders, a Gideon Bible and some tackily painted landscapes...
...have entered building to loosen their historic ties to a fixed return on investment; the old policy has lost appeal because of inflation. Last month, Chicago-based C.N.A. Financial Corp., a major insurance combine, agreed to acquire Los Angeles' Larwin Co., the nation's largest privately owned home-building concern (1968 sales: $50 million). The price: $100 million in C.N.A. stock. Prudential Insurance recently bought a half interest in southern California's Westlake Village, a new town being built by Shipping Magnate Daniel Ludwig...
Chrysler Corp. is investing about $2,000,000 a week to become the landlord of projects ranging from a shopping center in Knoxville to a group of 360 town houses in Ann Arbor, Mich. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., the chemical manufacturer, recently bought the Yeonas Organization, a home-building firm in a suburb of Washington, D.C. International Paper picked up American Central Corp., a Lansing, Mich., developer of leisure-time property. The Penn-Central railroad is not only one of the nation's largest real estate owners but also depends on realty income to stay...
London Lisp. The stuff in the bottles sparkled. The New York Times began to buy small pieces in 1963, in 1965 invited him to be its staff dance critic. For Barnes, the deadlines were lifelines; the city was home. "From childhood," he claims, "I had inhaled imported U.S. culture in films and drama. I was immediately Americanized...