Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eyes are "bloodred pools." His "familiar bald head hangs low from the heavy excess of the night before." He shows up on the set late and bobbles his lines. So said the London Daily Mail describing Telly Savalas filming a movie in West Berlin. Savalas' eyes turned purple when he saw the article, and last week he took his beef to a London court. Fellow Actor James Mason defended Telly's casual treatment of scripts, saying that he was "famous for the spontaneous and creative use of the language." Telly, for his part, disputed the Daily Mail...
...plastic balloons that Henry Kissinger carries around in his plane, and when things get bad, he inflates the balloons in different parts of the world to show the mean people that there is really something worthwhile to believe in. Tell your Daddy to write to Mr. Kissinger, who will mail him a set of Liz and Richard balloons for only $1.98. This will stop all the confusion, end the cold war and make you all happy again...
Verr claims that his mail has been intercepted and his room ransacked, and there have been vague reports that his life has been threatened. The academy has assigned him a bodyguard. Verr has complained to newsmen about his treatment, much to the disgust of some cadets. Says one: "Verr is getting every ounce of publicity he can out of this and is doing the academy a disservice...
...minute ad on TV. Another kissed the tube whenever he appeared. He booked a concert at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, and it sold out. Westbury asked him back for a one-week gig for $100,000. Love 76 has sold 43,000 copies, through mail orders drawn by the TV spots. Lemongello was becoming a household word of sorts-at least in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. But, as he ruefully admitted, "if you mentioned my name in Philadelphia, no one would know me." He realized that unless he could get a recording contract, his instant success would...
Died. Otto Kerner, 67, two-term former Democratic Governor of Illinois (1961-68) and federal judge, who was considered to be a paragon of political integrity until 1973, when he was convicted of conspiracy, mail fraud, income-tax evasion and lying to a grand jury; in Chicago. Kerner was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals by President Johnson in 1968. He had gained national attention that year as chairman of the President's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, which concluded that the U.S. was becoming an increasingly dichotomized society-one part prospering white, the other poor...