Word: barbershop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...potpourri of old-time numbers like "A Bicycle Built for Two," "The Band Played On," and "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." There is also, for the piccolo-playing Dorothy, a punningly titled "Play Us a Polka, Dot," and, farther on, an example of the old unaccompanied barbershop quartet (actually a quintet here), "Pretty Jennie Lee." The opening scene, in proprietor Schmidt's beer-garden, provides the endearing folkish song "'Twas Not So Long Ago," which points to Schmidt's immigrant origins by being sung first in German by him and then in English by his daughter Addie...
...only races Princeton won were the 880 (by .2 seconds) and the three-mile. Gary Schmidt triumphed in the 440 and tri-captain Jeff Campbell took a close mile in 4:14.4. The Crimson quarter of Henry Hagerty, John Chafee, Jeff Campbell and Gary Schmidt beat Princeton's barbershop singers in the mile relay with a 3:28.8 clocking...
...York City's most powerful Mafia family; in his sleep; in Massapequa, N.Y. The Sicilian-born Gambino came to the U.S. as a stowaway at the age of 19. He assumed control of his underworld clan in 1957 after the assassination of its boss, Albert Anastasia, in the barbershop of the Park-Sheraton Hotel. Although the Federal Government tried to deport Gambino for ten years, a series of heart attacks enabled him to successfully thwart expulsion to Italy...
...major universities. He gets calls from broadcasters, reporters, politicians and even mothers-in-law who seek his expert assessments. Barber is deep into an academic study of this election and its participants, and he is pledged to restraint until it is over. Sometimes perched in an old-fashioned barbershop chair he has in his office, he turns away pleadings to rate the men by his scale. But he thinks every voter should do his own analysis...
...customer in Mr. Eckhard's barbershop in San Francisco's elegant Fairmont Hotel was turning hot under the collar, both literally and figuratively. Proprietor Eckhard Helmholz, brandishing a wide-toothed bone comb in one hand and a flaming 10-in. jeweler's torch in the other, was preparing to go to work, while cooing assurances that "it isn't nearly as bad as it smells." It turns out to be the blowtorch cut, the hottest innovation in California coiffure circles since Warren Beatty in Shampoo...