Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, she's jes' fine in the rest of those numbers too. At Hernando's Hideaway, she gets deliciously and most raucously drunk; before that, with bowler, smock and tights, she's given us "Steam Heat" (Janet Mendelsohn and Charon Lee Cohen, the show's choreographer, assist her in that). Accoutered as she is she'd heat up any union...
...queen of the field. Its circulation of 4,375,000 ranked it as the largest women's magazine in the world, and it continued to grow. By 1953 it had 5,000,000. by 1960, 6,000,000. But editorially, the magazine had lost some of its steam. With few alterations, it remained the same product that the Goulds had conceived...
press during the 19th century. Steam-powered presses were already around; forerunners of today's giant rotary presses had appeared by the 1860s; and before the century closed. Ottmar Mergenthaler had introduced the Linotype, the first successful mechanical typesetter...
...other that the report had to be written almost entirely by five nonindustry members, led by peppery Manhattan Lawyer Simon H. Rifkind. The report hit hard at the rail unions by recommending the gradual elimination of over 40,000 freight-and yard-engine firemen-survivors of the era of steam locomotives who, at union insistence, still ride diesel engines. (Rifkind & Co. conceded, however, that firemen still provide a necessary margin of safety in the engines of highspeed passenger trains.) The commission urged that the railroads pay dismissed firemen up to 60% of their wages for three years, put them...
Cleared Throat. At midnight comes one of radio's strangest and longest shows. Long John Nebel is on until 5 a.m. with a herd of beat and offbeat guests-flying-saucer spotters, clairvoyants, steam-locomotive buffs, all single-mindedly devoted to their own idiosyncrasies. Nebel greets the dawn undaunted by the knowledge that his audience of loyal fans consists mainly of insomniacs, night-blooming necromancers, and hash slingers in all-night diners. After Long John, the station clears its throat with a half-hour of music called Sunrise Serenade before John A. Gambling begins another garrulous...