Word: peake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sang like a frog and played his ever present ukulele like a hunt-and-peck typist. He talked with his mouth full and tossed aside his script to ad-lib whatever came into his head. He had no talent but folksiness. For Arthur Godfrey, that was enough. At his peak in the 1950s he was, after President Eisenhower, perhaps the best-loved man in America. Godfrey's daily radio show and two weekly TV shows on CBS brought the network as much as 12% of its total revenue. Said CBS Chairman William Paley of Godfrey in his heyday...
...idea seemed as simple as A B C. Republic Airlines introduced a new promotional scheme in January, hoping to lure more passengers during the slow, off-peak season. Under the plan, travelers taking the Minneapolis-based carrier from one smallish city (A) to another (C) via a large hub town like Atlanta (B) before March 30 would earn a free pass for a round trip to any of 63 destinations. The passes are good until June...
Convertible sales may peak in a couple of years at about 50,000 to 75,000 a year, although other estimates run as high as 150,000. That would be a good market and a profitable one, but not as strong as 20 years ago. Prospective convertible buyers, however, do not care about those boring statis tics. What they want is the wind in their hair once more. As for dealers, the most important thing about convertibles is their uplifting effect on sales. Says Ed Rikess, a Chevy dealer in St. Paul: "If we get people...
...considering the talents that went into the original, how could it be otherwise? Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were at the peak of their collaboration; George Abbott directed; and George Balanchine did the choreography, most notably the 20-minute jazz ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. Rodgers and Hart are gone, and Balanchine is ill. But Abbott, now 95, has returned to direct one of the liveliest revivals in years...
...eleven days, before rebounding a bit to $415 at week's end. On Wall Street, the prospect of a brisk economic recovery unleashed another stampede in the stock market. The Dow Jones industrial average closed at record highs on four consecutive days, finishing the week at an alltime peak...