Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week's battle with Holy Cross was ostensibly one of Harvard's home games. Students were offered three grades of tickets at about 40 percent of box-office price. Thus, while many of the best seats in the Garden were empty, Harvard fans witnessed the play form directly behind one of the baskets or in small groups mixed in with the rafters and lighting fixtures. If Harvard athletics is to gain local support without incurring the wrath of its best fans, some plan akin to the cheering-section arrangement should be worked out. A single block of seats, located...
...famed Ether Dome of Massachusetts General Hospital, a blond British electroencephalographer named William Grey Walter unveiled his invention-a yellow box, resembling a deep-freeze unit, full of vacuum tubes, condensers, switches, wires. Walter applied to a patient's head the electrodes of an electroencephalograph (a machine that traces the peaks and valleys of the brain waves, helps to diagnose epilepsy, brain tumors, etc.). Then he attached his analyzing machine to the electroencephalograph...
...cackling (1945) hen epic, The Egg and I, went to some 1,200,000 copies; Peace of Mind, Joshua Loth Liebman's "blue skies" book (the trade name for a consoling self-help handbook) sold over 250,000 copies, largely on its title. A string of novels (see box), most of them with gaudy jackets and tinny texts, sold extravagantly, some of them over 1,000,000 copies apiece...
...Brailowsky is in the top ten of pianists but ranks below masters like Artur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz both in prestige and at the box office. But in South America he outdraws them all, and Latin women bombard him with flowers and kisses. Tickets for a Brailowsky concert bring black-market prices. Says Brailowsky: "There is the line like you saw here for nylon stockings...
...curtain, and speak their lines in an acoustical monstrosity in order to stage their show at all. A week later, the Veterans Theater found themselves saddled with a 1500 seat auditorium rented from Rindge Tech and half a mile out of the student's path to the box office. Yet with the Brattle Hall theater being occupied by a professional company, these two spots were all that were available...