Word: stints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Puzo seemed to be bemused by the already dizzying changes. He had welcomed a Hollywood writing stint as a vacation from the hermit existence of the novelist. His office at Paramount had a refrigerator containing "an unlimited supply of soda pop free," he recounts in an upcoming nonbook entitled, naturally, The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions. "I had an adjoining office for my secretary and a telephone with a buzzer and four lines. This was living." However, between the soda pop and the tennis and the gambling, which Puzo plunged into with relish, he soon found that being the father...
...political reporter and national-affairs editor of ABC News; of a heart attack; in Bedford, N.H. An aggressive newsman of the never-take-no-for-an-answer school, Lawrence worked for both the Associated Press and United Press before joining the New York Times 30 years ago. After a stint abroad, he returned to Washington and his favorite beat-politics. Though he had a voice of gravel and the face of an unsuccessful prizefighter, he made the switch to television with ease ten years ago and continued to report scoops with enviable frequency...
...taste of horror and a heaping portion of the ridiculous. The plot goes unaltered, but Kong's cinematic character suffers some major blemishes. He eats people--chews on them, anyway--something he never did on daytime television. He chomps on a few native warriors and, during his New York stint, a businessman. He also steps on people. Most unfortunate of all is the woman living several flights down from Ann: Kong pulls her out through her bedroom window, but discovering she's not his girl, drops her--fifteen stories...
...butter, does not miss the social life that is ruled out by her training regimen. Says she: "There are lots of boys in the training group too, you know." Dianne Holum, a fiercely dedicated competitor who worked as a waitress last year to help finance a three-month training stint in The Netherlands, adds: "I don't mind the sacrifices. An Olympic gold medal is a life's ambition come true." Even so, the demands are such that many young skaters have to drop out of school and study with a tutor...
Died. Gene Austin, 71, "granddaddy of all crooners," who sold more than 86 million records in the era of crank-up phonographs; of lung cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Austin began his career as an entertainer by pounding bawdyhouse pianos. After a stint in vaudeville, he moved to the recording studios of RCA Victor, where his drawling tenor made hits of tunes like How Come You Do Me Like You Do? and Ramona. His biggest success, My Blue Heaven (1927), became his theme song...