Word: macke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Maxwell ("Mack") Kriendler, 65, former president of New York's elegant "21" Club, who boasted of knowing 50,000 people by name; of pneumonia while under treatment for cancer; in Manhattan. Kriendler, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, was for years the host at the world-famous restaurant that began as a speakeasy and became a clublike haven for celebrities, racing gentry and tycoons. The restaurant features the world's costliest hamburgers, an impressive cellar and a murky bar area decorated with scale-model beer trucks and airplanes. Mack Kriendler determined nightly...
...billion-a-year company. Last week United made a deal to swap $750 million of its stock for the Signal Companies, headquartered in Beverly Hills. Signal had $1.5 billion in sales last year from drilling oil and gas, manufacturing Garrett gas turbines and aerospace gear, and making Mack trucks. If shareholders and trustbusters approve, the deal will make United the nation's 24th largest manufacturer...
...mostly "new" Hollywood, Mengers, 36, is a throwback to the more flamboyant, flesh-peddling days of the studio moguls. At 5 ft. 2½ in. and 160 Ibs., usually billowing in a sea of muumuus and caftans, she is sometimes seen as a cross between Mama Cass and Mack the Knife. She has the soft, breathy voice of a little-bitty girl, the vocabulary of a mule skinner and the subtle approach of a Sherman tank. She often compares herself to Eve Harrington, the calculating and ruthless climber in All About Eve. In fact, a character based on Mengers will...
...people with "tired blood." The penalty is the biggest by far ever imposed for such a violation. The Williams Co. had first been ordered to expunge such claims in 1967, but as late as 1969, shortly before the FTC took the matter to court, oldtime Announcer Ted Mack was on the tube urging: "Take Geritol. It builds iron power in your blood fast...
WEDNESDAY: Special, Trouble Comes to Town, Small-town Southern sheriff Lloyd Bridges adopts a Northern Mack youth, the son of a Korean War buddy who saved his life, in this made-for-television movie about a town on the brink of race war. Directed by Daniel Petric ("A Raisin In the Sun"), CH. 5. 8:30 p.m. Color...