Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...start, has been hurt by the bare-bosom boom; Manhattan's Blue Angel is defunct; and the Bon Soir, where cerebral comedians once gamboled, now has a noncomic policy. The comic strips, too, are in a generally deplorable state, two notable exceptions being Schulz's Peanuts and Al Capp's Li'l Abner...
...midsummer eve in a Negro-ghetto backyard in Detroit, Diana Ross, then 14, Mary Wilson, 14, and Florence Ballard, 15, made their first profession al appearance. They sang Your Cheat ing Heart, and afterward they passed the hat. The take: "Darn near $3," says Diana's mother. Last week at Manhattan's Copacabana, home range of the big names (Sinatra, Dean Martin), where the big beat is seldom heard, the same rock-'n'-roll trio was doing turn-away business. Diana, Mary and Florence now call themselves the Supremes, and the take...
...pair of New Orleans floozies who have had a falling-out. One is a dead-broke wino (Kate Reid) who has been barred from her room in the Silver Dollar Hotel. The other (Margaret Leighton) has suffered a "mutilation"-one of her breasts has been removed. Reid has al ready carved this sad fact on the wall outside Leighton's apartment. Bawdily, brutally proud of her own breasts, she has herself, of course, been carved up by life. Kate Reid gives a stridently able performance, but is too self-assured for an alcoholic, and this throws the play...
Died. James D. Norris, 59, sports promoter and onetime Mr. Big of boxing; following a heart attack; in Chicago. The son of a Chicago millionaire, Norris won notoriety in the late 1940s and '50s as the boss of the Internation al Boxing Club, through which he and Hoodlum Frankie Carbo held a monopoly on virtually all major fights until 1959, when the U.S. Supreme Court broke their hold. Norris faded from view, quietly operating his vast grain, railroad, real estate and cattle interests plus the Spring Hill Farm stables, Chicago Black Hawks hockey team, and stadiums in Chicago...
...sabre team with former captains James R. Pusey '62 and Jonathan E. Kolb '65, an all-American last year will be the youngest alumni contingent. Lajos S. Heder '61 and Lawrence M. Butler '64 will also fence two bouts for the alumni. Varsity sabre men will be al Makaitis, Bob Damus, and Dave Redmond...