Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...projection based on admittedly inexact information of federal agencies, is well over $30 billion a year. Even using a conservative figure, its annual profits are at least in the $7 billion-to-$10 billion range. Though he meant it as a boast, Meyer Lansky, the gang's leading financial wizard, was actually being overly modest when he chortled in 1966: "We're bigger than U.S. Steel." Measured in terms of profits, Cosa Nostra and affiliates are as big as U.S. Steel, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., General Motors, Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Electric, Ford Motor...
...state. Many were moved to tears when a young girl from The Bronx began to play Judy's records on a battery-powered phonograph. Some, of course, came only out of curiosity. Others were responding to a remembered image of the plucky, wide-eyed little girl in The Wizard of Oz who had said: "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard. Be cause if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with...
...been through a lot," she once explained after a tardy appearance. "We love you, Judy," the audience replied. Born Francess Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn., to parents in vaudeville, she made her stage debut at 3 and became a national legend at 17 in the film The Wizard of Oz by singing of her longing to be somewhere Over the Rainbow. She attempted suicide in 1950 but then had wildly successful concert comebacks and won Oscar nominations for dramatic roles in A Star Is Born and Judgment at Nuremberg. She married her fifth husband, Mickey Deans, 34, a former discotheque...
...London. There are, as always, several Lowells: Lowell the improper Bostonian, the politically engaged, the scholar, traveler and eclectic New England importer of foreign cultures. Lowell the poet has not only the chameleon's ability to change the color of his verse to fit the subject but that wizard lizard's faculty of independently focusing each eye. The left Lowell eye may be modishly on the topical-Che Guevara, police, R.F.K., student riots, Dr. Spock. But the right eye glints backwards to Agamemnon, Sir Thomas More, Napoleon, King David, Adam. "I am learning to live in history," Lowell...
...TRUNK, son," the Queen said. "You're going to Harvard." In Cambridge the Prince met a wizard in corduroy who fed him spices full of visions. Banquets, English carriages, French cigarettes. He was really living...