Word: tinkerers
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...Knight, it was an unaccustomed prominence. He has climbed the hard way, by merit, in a family empire where climbing was scarcely necessary. By disposition, he settled on the business side. "Jack isn't any bookkeeper," he said, "and I've always been sort of a tinker." When Jack Knight bought the Miami Herald in 1937, Tinker Jim went down and hammered it into shape. A relentless foe of back-room featherbedding, Jim took on a strike by the powerful International Typographical Union in 1948, kept the paper on the street, set up a nonunion shop...
...qualities combine to make Bad Boy Behan's book a pleasant exception in the usually dreary field of schoolboy or prison reminiscence. He has Gabriel's own gift of the gab, a cold eye for himself, a warm heart for others, and the narrative speed of a tinker. On the whole, he also makes good his claim to "a sense of humour that would nearly cause me to burst out laughing at my own funeral, providing...
...remember Sergeant Preston and his dog King, "On King! On you huskies!", brought to us by Quaker Oats, the cereal shot from guns. We remember the sidekicks: Vic, Tank Tinker, Jim and Penny and Clipper. We remember the villains; the Gray Ghost, Dr. Martelli, the secret agents with German accents, who called one another Klaus and Fritz and Karl. There were, of course, comic books, and we are not unfamiliar with Superman, Batman and Robin, or the Plastic Man. But mostly we listened, and imagined...
...singing commercials. All day, every day, she warbles as the Schlitz Beer girl ("You'll be the kiss of the hops in every glass"), as the Scottissue girl, the Santa Fe Railroad's Indian boy ("Santa Fe, all the way"). She is the voice of the impish Tinker Bell orbiting around a jar of Peter Pan peanut butter, of Walt Disney's Minnie Mouse, and (on records) of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. One firm planned a commercial featuring an eight-year-old boy, a nine-year-old girl, their mother and grandmother. Gloria did all four...
...joint session of the Supreme Soviet that the U.S.S.R. will unilaterally suspend nuclear tests. The move will serve the double purpose for Russia of making-peace propaganda for the credulous and avoiding the bothersome problem of the inspection system needed to make any test suspension worth more than a tinker's curse...