Word: jock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When that phone rings," says one old jock, "you know it's death time...
...time when most U.S. rock jockeys are screaming egomaniacs, Drake advises his stations to end the cult of nonstop talkers. Even Murray the K, the nation's best known jock, was forced out shortly after Drake's firm moved in at WOR-FM in Manhattan. Murray, noting his "plastic-voiced" successors and their less adventurous choice of records, predicted disaster for Drake. But in the eleven months since, Drake has doubled the ratings and put money-losing WOR-FM in the black...
...seize their parties' nominations, then meet in an old-style confrontation in the November election. For some voters, at least, the prospect is enough to start a small migration to Canada. In a last-ditch effort to start some domestic excitement, various professional and amateur politicians last week jock eyed to capture for themselves a bit of the vanished magic of the late Robert Kennedy. Despite much personal antipathy, some Kennedy forces have melded with Eugene McCarthy's. At a fund-raising hoopla in Manhattan staged by show-biz and artistic figures, Conductor Leonard Bernstein tried...
Rolling In. Today Britons wonder who did the favor for whom. Fleming died in 1964, and Sir Jock, now 55, retired last year. Still, in acquiring the rights to Bond books-79 million published so far-Booker cleared $360,000 in royalties. Equally sugary are the royalties worldwide on 007 toiletries, sweatshirts, wet suits and a percentage on James Bond movies...
With money like that rolling in, Booker's bosses decided that corporate authorship was a profitable hedge against what Chairman David Powell, who succeeded Sir Jock, calls "the hazards of tropical agriculture." Thus the company has bought controlling interest in the works of such British authors as John and Penelope Mortimer, Gavin Lyall, Francis Clifford and Robert Bolt (A Man For All Seasons). Now, in its latest acquisition, Booker has signed on an author every bit as big as Ian Fleming. For an amount it refuses to disclose, the company has acquired 51% of everything published since...