Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Action. With him was a trumpet player named John Foss, 27, and in the overheated room, Sinatra was dressed only in a T shirt and shorts. There was a rap on the door. A young man with dark hair and a long face came in, saying that he had a package for the singer. He bent over, set the box down, and stood up waving a revolver at Sinatra and Foss. Then came an amateur touch. Risking life imprisonment, or death in the gas chamber if he should kill the boy, and obviously planning a ransom play that would involve...
After taping Foss's wrists and eyes, the kidnaper, who by this time had been joined by an accomplice, got Sinatra about two-thirds dressed-shoes but no socks, trousers and a topcoat but only the T shirt beneath. They ripped out the phone, took Sinatra outside and disappeared into a blustering snowstorm. It was Sunday...
...stump below the elbow contains two electrodes, each attached to two wires that proceed up the sleeve of coat or dress in a single cable. They lead to a transistorized power pack the size of a cigarette case, which may be worn under a man's shirt or a woman's blouse. Another wire leads back from the power pack, down the arm, to the artificial hand. Inside this hand are "the works": an amplifier to magnify the body's muscle currents about 20,000 times, a storage cell, an electric motor and some gears...
...absorbed, Viyella intends to move more deeply into synthetics. At the same time Hyman, who has made 28 transatlantic trips and is a self-styled "Americanophile," will step up his marketing in the U.S., where 50% of Viyella production already goes. To service such stateside customers as Manhattan Shirt, Hathaway Shirt, Kayser-Roth and Hart Schaffner & Marx, he intends to re-establish an American mill closed down by earlier management a decade ago in what he regards as an ill-advised cost-cutting move. To step up demand for his products, he has begun a new and perky U.S. advertising...
...Irreverent Compendium of American Quotable Notables edited by Cleveland Amory with Earl Blackwell." Ringmaster Amory, who killed society, has now set about celebrities, and when in doubt on what to say, he has dropped back and punned. Marlon Brando is "the all-time tempest in a T-shirt." Tommy Manville is "an altar-ego." Eva Gabor is "strictly from Hungary." Alfred Hitchcock is the "star of staged screams and television." And Elizabeth Taylor is "a million-dollar crybaby in a wive-and-men spent store." Whew. That took four years to write...