Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book's hero-villain is Herb Fuller, "America's beloved humorist," a folksy monster of a television star. Fuller is presented as a platinum-plated s.o.b., the kind of man who would not only sell his grandmother but, in the end, not deliver her. In his programs he mixes corny piety with dirty jokes, drinks raw gin from a water tumbler while broadcasting. Like an alcoholic stashing away bottles in convenient places, Fuller stashes away girls in convenient apartments. He once hired a psychologist to find out what kind of music has the most relaxing effect on women...
Among the mechanized marvels: ¶A 70-ton monster built by Norton Co. of Worcester, Mass., which automatically moves a crankshaft from a grinding operation to drilling and milling and finally ejects it a job that had previously needed five machines. Saving in labor costs alone can estimated $38,000 a year on a two-shift operation...
...dead silence, a fire crew inched toward the still monster to douse its blackened rocket chambers with a blanket of foam. The sled's tail flared into a puff of flame, like a last gesture of defiance, and the test run was over. A quick check of the chronographs showed that Sonic Wind No. 2 had hit 995 m.p.h...
...young men . . . They don't care no more for firecrackers on the Fourth of July." He blamed all Tammany's troubles on civil service reform, but he foresaw a day when the Tiger would rise again. Said he: "I see a vision. I see the civil service monster lyin' flat on the ground. I see the Democratic Party standin' over it with foot on its neck and wearin' the crown of victory. I see Thomas Jefferson lookin' out from a cloud and sayin', 'Give him another sockdologer: finish...
...shapes up in The Kaiser of Prussian-born Biographer Joachim von Kürenberg is a vastly different fellow from the monster who was hanged in effigy throughout the U.S. in World War I. It is not simply that the author remembers Wilhelm II's good points; it is the fact that he had so many weak ones. Kürenberg's book makes the going a bit sticky for people whose knowledge of modern European history is shaky, but it will bring many a surprise to readers who vaguely remember Wilhelm as the Iron Hohenzollern...