Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Singing this plaintively courageous hymn, members of Equity, the fledgling actors' union, walked off their stages 41 years ago, spearheaded by Marie Dressier and Ethel Barrymore, and paraded through a blacked-out Broadway. Their demand: the right to bargain collectively with their producers. The producers capitulated after 30 days, during which New Yorkers consoled themselves with flicks, pickup vaudeville and impromptu sidewalk skirmishes. Last week, once again, Broadway theaters were deserted, and Shubert Alley was so dark that one could not tell a producer from a philanthropist. At the end of an artistically and financially dreary season, New York...
Still cheap are Spain, Austria and Ireland. Biggest travel bargain in 1960, after the initial expense of getting there: Greece, where accommodations are improving, though rarely luxurious, and prices are low: $10 per day for deluxe double room, $2.50 to $3.50 for the best dinner available...
...director named Michael Gargiulo was approached by a young man with the furtive but intense air of a dirty-postcard salesman. "You looking for an apartment?" he muttered hopefully. Gargiulo acknowledged that he was, and the young man promptly offered to sublet his own one-bedroom diggings at a bargain rental. But the apartment was too small for Gargiulo, and he strolled on-only to run into two more apartment dwellers with subletting bargains to offer. By coincidence-or maybe not by coincidence-all three of the eager would-be subletters were tenants at the same nearb 7 apartment project...
...over from his binges, Cass Kinsolving rants at his century. He predictably hates the U.S., Ike, commercialism, conformity and just about everything except the recordings of the late Leadbelly, which he plays by the hour while his wife and four children go hungry. The knave in Mason strikes a bargain with the fool in Cass, and with almost inadvertent demonism, they destroy an innocent girl...
Capital is in such bad shape that Neelands does not think it can merge in the near future: it is in no position to bargain with another line. It lost $5,400,000 in the first three months this year, made a $50,000 profit in April. Neelands believes that the economics of the airline business will eventually force Capital to merge if he can build it up into a desirable property. This week he will start to salvage Capital by shaking up its second-echelon executives. Next, he hopes to get rid of Capital's money-losing feeder...