Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed China Doll nightclub off Broadway was a good spot: "Two or three peddlers hang around there . . . on a quiet basis." So was Hanson's drugstore at 51st Street and Seventh Avenue in midtown Manhattan; so was the Garden Cafeteria across from Madison Square Garden. "You just walk in ... get a cup of coffee . . . put your money down, pick up the drugs and leave . . ." In a B-G Coffee Shop ". . . it's more of a high-class type of addict ... Cocaine buyers hang around there...
...Sullivan is a strange contrast to the bumptious know-it-all of Sullivan's Broadway column in New York's Daily News. His TV expression-or lack of expression-is a cross between that of Joe Louis and a cigar-store Indian. When he walks out to introduce an act he looks as though someone had wound him up with a key-located somewhere under the coat hanger that seems to have been built into the broad shoulders of his double-breasted jacket. But televiewers apparently approve his wooden personality. Sullivan's hourlong, celebrity-studded variety show...
...Lemon Drop Kid. Bob Hope uses a Damon Runyon story as an incidental prop in a wild, gagged-up farce of racetrack touts and Broadway con games (TIME, April...
Born Yesterday. Judy Holliday's Academy Award-winning performance as the dumb blonde of the Broadway hit (TIME...
...skinny ("I barely cast a shadow"), but he fell in love with Yale the minute he arrived. Compared to Hotchkiss, "it was like hitting Broadway after ten years in a lumber camp," and young Whitney was determined to make the most...