Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is virtually no such thing as nightclub hopping. The clubs are so far apart that, as Actor Peter Falk complains, "You have to pack water," and Los Angeles is an early-to-bed, early-to-rise town where many executives have to be up in time to tune in with New York's three-hour head start on the business...
NATIONAL LEAGUE FOOTBALL (CBS, 9:30 p.m. to conclusion In the third of four National Football League tune-ups, the Baltimore Colts meet the Cleveland Browns, last year's Eastern Division champs, at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium...
...privilege of putting all this between covers is one for which Kuttner might have to pay, to the tune of several hundred dollars, but that threat makes the task of dinosaur-fighting just that much more appealing. "I don't give a dawn whether they buy it or not, as long as they read it. If they're not interested, I don't want them to touch it." He enjoys talking like a boy-with-mission and, if the magazine survives beyond its next issue, he's probably found as good a mission as any. "But look," he says...
...Year. To Thomson, investing in the market is no gamble, and he has statistics to prove his point. Under Merrill Lynch encouragement?to the tune of $400,000?the University of Chicago's Center for Research in Security Prices recently studied all stock-price changes since 1926, carried out 56,558,000 computerized transactions. Result: a long-term profit that varied according to tax bracket: a tax-exempt institution would have earned 9% per year on its investment since 1926; an individual in the $10,000-a-year bracket, 8.2%; and one in the $50,000-a-year bracket...
Died. Lenny Bruce, 40, nightclub performer, leading outpatient of the sick-comic school; of suspected narcotics poisoning; in Hollywood. Son of an "exotic dancer," trained as a burlesque comedian. Bruce was never in tune with this world, and he soured totally in the 1950s after his beautiful blonde wife became a drug addict, leaving him with an infant daughter. From Manhattan to Hollywood, he viewed life as a four-letter word and, with gestures, commented blackly on it, never lacking for listeners and finding some curious champions (among them: Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Poet Robert Lowell). His path led ever lower...