Word: biz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...currently in residence), or the William Paleys' swimming-pooled pavilion (where both President Kennedy and Princess Margaret have stayed). Or for $65 a day, a couple may have a spacious double bedroom with a balcony on the bay. Round Hill has the swinging crowd-society and show biz mixed with plainer folk who like going black tie twice a week for their dining and dancing...
...least 200% in just the past year. "It used to be men of 50 or 60 who would come in," says Mandel. "Now it is men of 30 or 35. It's part ego and part it's just annoying to be bald." Though show biz types like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra are still leaders in the wiggy set, "ordinary people are going in for the same routine," says Mandel. In San Antonio, whose wig merchants claim the sale of more hairpieces per capita than anywhere in the U.S., most of the buyers...
...program that is dedicated to finding out how many times the same joke can be repeated. Mountaineer Jed Clampett and his family, worth $25 million because oil was found in their swamp back in the Ozarks, have moved to Beverly Hills to live among the polychrome celebrities of show biz. Pa bought a house built by John Barrymore, and the place is easily large enough to be mistaken for a university. Pa takes an appreciative look at the smooth and gorgeous sweep of lawn and says, "Fine, we'll commence plowing tomorrow...
...just-born art of space flight. He has kept his sense of humor and some of his youthful mischievousness. but he never lets either affect his job. He hates heroics, and has avoided publicity stunts as much as possible. His last month TV outburst against making "show biz" out of the astronauts (TIME. Sept. 21) underlined a long and strongly held feeling...
Come On Strong is a serious play by Garson Kanin about the kind of show biz people that Nichols and May, rightly, think are funny. Carroll Baker is a girl on the way up; Van Johnson is a man of a certain amount of principle who follows along for a certain distance. The dialogue is studded with the kind of cracks that only canned TV audiences find funny. Californians refer to San Francisco as "Frisco." How, one muses, does a show like this ever reach Boston, let alone Broadway...