Word: tomlinson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Temple University audience that included many clergymen and nuns was stunned by the sex, brutality and abrasive language of a play called The Meteor. Nor did the playwright ease their discomfort, as he accepted an honorary D.Lit. before the final performance at Temple's Tomlinson Theater. Friedrich Durrenmatt, 48, irreverent son of a Protestant minister, read his acceptance speech seated on a rumpled bed on the play's set-the same bed where, a few minutes later, a naked woman sprawled as her husband painted her portrait. Said the Swiss dramatist: "My academic career has now been successfully...
...that it has a mind of its own. The bug, it seems, is just about the fastest thing on four wheels and is fairly dropping its transmission to give Jones a ride to fame and fortune. The glory road, however, is constantly being rerouted by a swishy villain (David Tomlinson), who is determined to seize the wondrous bug and turn it into scrap...
...outcome of all this is about as predictable as the benumbing succession of autopomorphic gags. Connoisseurs of camp may enjoy watching Tomlinson ranting at the Volkswagen, but The Love Bug is surely the first film in which the actors (Jones, Michele Lee, Buddy Hackett) are so meticulously insipid that a car can handily steal the show...
Died. Roy E. Tomlinson, 90, former president (1917-29, 1932-45) and chairman (1929-55) of the National Biscuit Co., who raised a small biscuit-maker to a modern corporate giant (1967 sales: $764 million) that makes everything from crackers to candies, cookies to ice cream cones, and sells them throughout the world; in Glen Ridge...
...inconveniences for defense and research-and besides, this ordinance is unenforceable." Not even the ban's supporters seriously thought they were going to catch supersonic culprits up in the air, but they did hope it would at least serve as a precedent. Says Santa Barbara City Attorney Stanley Tomlinson: "I know we'll come in for some kidding about this, but it's high time somebody somewhere spoke out against this darned nuisance...