Word: bandwagons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...executions and punishments." Last week was the first since Jan. i in which not a single Cuban died in front of a firing squad. Castro also seemed more willing to quarrel with the Reds around him. His mouthpiece, Revolution, denounced the Communists for trying "to climb on the bandwagon of the revolution and detour it from the path." Undeterred, a top Chilean Red, Luis Cor-valan, declared: "We must march with the bourgeoisie, and Cuba is the example." While Communists praised the revolution, many moderate Cubans who supported Castro from the start are losing faith. "It's a swindle...
Other stars have leaped onto the bandwagon for more mundane reasons. Why does Rock Hudson, the nation's No. 1 box-office draw, plug safety razors? Says a friend: "Naturally, because he can use the dough." Fred MacMurray and Wife June Haver lent their faces to American Gas for a $6,000 kitchen, plus air conditioning for their ranch. Claims one bubbly member of Ad Row: "We can give very high-style publicity. Now we are selecting stars, not soliciting them...
...that nobody aspires to anything but money." (Personally, he ekes out his $100,000-a-year salary and expenses from his own package firm and draws an extra $100,000 from the annual profits.) The networks, he complains, are copycats, scorning new ideas in a race for the bandwagon. (But his own firm, Talent Associates, Ltd., has made its reputation with such tried old "original" offerings as The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Swiss Family Robinson and A Tale of Two Cities...
Bruce K. Chapman '62, secretary of the Students for Rockefeller, said yesterday that the group anticipates a bandwagon movement for Rockefeller to gather speed "by Christmas at the latest." Mark K. Adams '60, chairman of the group, predicted that its greatest activity would take place next year...
...made, including more than a million by the Presley of the group, gangling, 19-year-old Marty Wilde. Two years ago, Wilde was just plain Cockney Reg Smith, plunking away for $1.40 a night in a London club. Parnes, a onetime dress-shop owner who had hopped on the bandwagon with top British Rocker Tommy Steele (TIME, Dec. 30, 1957), picked up Smith and gave him his new name. Parnes is as mystical as a horse breeder about the importance of names, and the monikers sprouted as fast as his stable: Billy Fury, 17, light-sideburned Dicky Pride, 17, Vince...