Word: rung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonderful ordinariness,* he has managed to write nearly 500 books. To his long list of heroes-Gideon of the Yard, The Toff, Handsome West-Creasey here adds his first new one in ten years. He is Dr. Emmanuel ("Manny") Cellini, psychiatrist first, detective second, who in this adventure is rung in to help not the bobbies but the criminal's neurotic parents. For them and for the reader, Cellini has an almost revolutionary message: some people are not spoiled by their environment or their families-they are just plain no good...
...Copacabana in November. But in fact, she has already conquered. Not only was Downtown the best hit of 1964; right behind it is her I Know a Place, which in the past five weeks has zoomed from No. 50 to No. 2, seems sure to make the last rung...
...living person's autograph the highest price ever paid was rung up in an auction last year for a four-page letter from Jacqueline Kennedy, written when her husband was a Senator, in reply to a begging letter from an Englishman. Auctioneers had estimated that the letter would bring no more than $250, but a Boston lawyer paid...
...byways. In its world of intrigue, menace is measured by the arched eyebrow and the smiling threat. All arrivals and departures are eyeballed by at least one sinister type, who glances at his watch and swiftly darts into a phone booth. But never mind the photostats. Someone should have rung up James Bond for clues on how to play a goshawful thriller for real laughs...
...burst of activity in a company whose U.S. sales had been stagnant for years until Lesch took over, is what might be expected of Mr. Hard Sell. An accountant who rose through the international division, which rings up 53% of the company's sales, Lesch has personally rung doorbells to interview housewives from Bangkok to San Diego, has sold Colgate's Fab to Mexican villagers by rolling up his sleeves to show them that they could even use it to wash clothes in streams. His first act as Colgate president was to drop out of sight for three...