Word: macke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Walden Robert Cassoto, 37, the crooner known as Bobby Darin, who at 22 became a rock-'n'-roll star with Splish Splash, won a larger audience with his driving version of Kurt Weill's Mack the Knife; following open-heart surgery for a longtime heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A confessed student of the Sinatra style, Darin characteristically loosened his tie and snapped his fingers even when singing somber songs. In 1960 he married Sandra Dee, but by the middle of the decade both his marriage and his career were turning sour. A divorce...
...frustrated gallant with Micawberish business instincts," Jones was raised in Hollywood, where he worked occasionally as a child extra in Mack Sennett comedies. After graduation from art school, he supported himself by drawing pencil portraits for $1 apiece at a friend's bookstore. From this he drifted into animation, more or less moseying up through the ranks of animation's curious technocracy (eel washer, painter, inker, in-betweener), and began directing...
...raspy voice shatters the static, like the roar of a Mack truck rolling by a Volkswagen: "Breaker, break to any westbound diesel. Is the chicken coop open up ahead?" The answer crackles back from the cab of an 18-wheeler lumbering across Indiana: "It's open and the hen is inside the little white church...
...first time since 1968 that Radcliffe had won its own fall regatta. Coach Mike Horn was pleased with the overall performance by Angell and her alternating crews Anne Johnson and Pam Mack, as well as that of Roehm and Sarah Herrick who co-skippered in the B-division. He had to admit, however, that things looked "pretty grim" for a while in the final race...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH, The Astronomer's Dream, by Georges Melies and Paisan by Roberto Rossellini, Oct. 11, 7:30, $1. Love, Speed, and Thrills, by Mack Sennett and The Searchers by John Ford...