Word: barbershop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...running Havana gambling looks to be this winter's richest bonanza. Last week Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan dropped a suggestion that a yearning to cut himself into Cuban casinos doomed Racketeer Albert Anastasia to his death last October by bullets from masked gunmen in a Manhattan hotel barbershop (TIME...
...TOWN, by William Faulkner. The malignant, unsavory Snopeses taking over Yoknapatawpha County from the noble old families who once controlled it and gave it graciousness. Intricate and convoluted as the book is in plot and in sentence, Faulkner gives it the air of a sly village idiot's barbershop yarn...
Some highly successful reincarnations of the barbershop quartet have been producing a lot of lather in the pop-music business. Today's male vocal groups generally sport teen-age beanies, turtleneck sweaters and cloyingly cute names: the Four Aces, Four Freshmen, Hilltoppers, Platters, Pied Pipers, Crew-Cuts. The most refreshing recruits to this fraternity are four sober-suited young men who call themselves-no less cutely-the Hi-Lo's, but make a specialty of kidding the beanies off their brothers...
...Sound. Although they are the most polished neo-barbershop group going, none of the Hi-Lo's has had much professional training. Bass Puerling and Baritone Bob Strasen grew up together in Milwaukee, went to Los Angeles looking for a break in show business. There they teamed up with Tenors Burroughs and Bob Morse, who were appearing with a local band. They started practicing five hours a day, soon decided that they were getting good enough to sell their act. The group considered and rejected a dozen names (samples: the Brooks Brothers, the Lamplighters), finally...
...Payoff. The payoff for supplying the glue is growth and profits. The first headquarters of R-W was a one-room office in Los Angeles (now a barbershop), with a card table, a chair, a telephone, a rented typewriter. "When we started," says Si Ramo, "we thought that maybe, if we were greatly successful, we might eventually have a staff of 150 people." By last week R-W's security guards alone numbered 162, its total staff 3,040. From the original room the plant has expanded to 450,000 sq. ft. of modern buildings. This year...