Word: timed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Speed in the Studio. At Porcella's urging, Zlatoff-Mirsky came hurrying out to Hollywood. He pronounced the pictures in excellent condition-while at the same time warning that another year of neglect would ruin them forever-took them away, and restored them all with "chemical solvents" in three weeks. Since proper restoration of deteriorated paintings can require as much as a year apiece, Zlatoff-Mirsky's speed was astonishing. At Lawyer Giesler's press conference, he refused to show the actual pictures but passed photographs about. There were also pictures of the most happy Folio himself...
Ever since. Reporter Brennan has wondered if Factor was really kidnaped, or if his story was a hoax, aimed at taking the pressure off him elsewhere (Factor was wanted at the time in England on a swindling charge). Brennan also wondered-along with a lot of other newsmen and a good many Chicago cops-if Illinois Gangster Roger Touhy, convicted of kidnaping and sentenced to 99 years in prison after being identified by Factor as one of his abductors, had not, in fact, been framed...
...From time to time Brennan visited Touhy at Illinois' Stateville Prison, became even more convinced of his innocence in the kidnaping. Last fortnight, his sentence commuted to 75 years, Roger Touhy was ordered released on parole. Timed for publication at the same time as Touhy's release was a book co-authored by Touhy and Ray Brennan,* avowing Touhy's innocence. It charges that the prosecution used a witness who was not in Chicago at the time of the kidnaping to convict Touhy, and gives details of how Factor changed his testimony against Touhy during the trial...
Right "Personality." What happened? As it turned out, the Edsel was a classic case of the wrong car for the wrong market at the wrong time. It was also a prime example of the limitations of market research, with its "depth interviews" and "motivational" mumbo-jumbo. On the research, Ford had an airtight case for a new medium-priced car to compete with Chrysler's Dodge and DeSoto, General Motors' Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Buick. Studies showed that by 1965 half of all U.S. families would be in the $5,000-and-up bracket, would be buying more cars...
...particular the grille, which resembled an Oldsmobile sucking a lemon, was not much help, even after the lemon was removed. In its first six months Edsel made 54,600 cars, and then went steadily downward: 26,500 cars in 1958, fewer than 30,000 cars so far in boom-time...