Word: plattered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After his appointment last March as U.S. Ambassador to Finland, Rowan fascinated the Finns with his outspoken talk about U.S. racial problems. And on racial matters, Rowan is understandably militant. "No people I can recall in history ever got their freedom on a silver platter," he says. "The Negro is no exception. There's a latent decency in the American conscience. But it takes this militancy to arouse...
...plow straight through the book as I did; you'll never make it. Instead, dip in occasionally and taste it. The World of Vogue is an endless assortment of hors d'oeuvres from a platter arranged with discerning taste...
...platter before us was too broad," John Schlesinger decided when he took over. "I decided to consolidate." His first move was to sell off his father's pet chain of bioscopes to 20th Century-Fox for $28 million. Next went the hotels. Schlesinger shocked traditionalists last year when he announced that the 57-year-old Carlton Hotel in downtown Johannesburg would be razed. To replace it: a 23-story, glass-and-steel office building to house Schlesinger's headquarters...
...Mary Ford, while Les Paul furiously strummed what sounded like a million electric guitars. From 1948 to 1953, their "new sound" sold millions of hit recordings such as Tennessee Waltz and Mockin'bird Hill. While rock 'n' roll eventually knocked them off the top of the platter heap, the electronically blended couple remained a TV and nightclub attraction. But alas, after 14 years of marriage, there was no mu-u-u-sic somewhere. Mary is now suing for separate maintenance on the ground of mental cruelty...
McCracken first tapped the market twelve years ago, more or less by accident. A divinity student and radio sports announcer, he recorded a platter entitled The Game of Life-a hectic play-by-play account of a football game, with Jesus coaching the Christian team and Satan sending in plays to the Forces of Evil. Originally meant only for use by a Texas church group. Game proved to be such a galloping commercial success that McCracken decided to go into the business for good...