Word: cashier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That prosperity cum poverty parlay is, of course, the election-year daily double that President Johnson hopes to have pay off, and last week he took a substantive stride in the direction of the cashier's window. After two days of stormy debate, the Senate cut Johnson's anti-poverty program by only $15 million, to $947.5 million, and passed it by a resounding roll-call vote of 62 to 33. Fifty-two Democrats and ten liberal Republicans voted for the measure, while eleven Democrats, mostly Southern, and 22 Republicans, led by Barry Goldwater, cried...
...whites and blacks. When he and his family entered the newly desegregated Druid Theater, a rumor spread that a Negro woman had accompanied them. As it turned out, there were no Negroes in the theater at the time, but a crowd of nearly 1,000 whites gathered, pelted the cashier's cage and the marquee with rocks and bottles, shattered the windows and slashed the tires on Palance's rented car. Local cops took the Palances to the police station for protection...
Died. Mazie Phillips, 72, angel of mercy to Manhattan's Bowery bums, a guttural-voiced platinum blonde who worked as a cashier in a Skid Row moviehouse and for 50 years comforted every bench warmer, panhandler and swillbelly with a quarter here, a nip there, believing that more organized forms of charity were doomed because "you ain't goin' to get a bum in a mission if there's a gutter to sleep in"; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...bystander jumped into the patrol car, called headquarters. Seven blocks away, the cashier at the Texas Theater telephoned police to report that a suspicious-looking man had entered the movie house, was constantly changing seats. At 1:35, four cops entered the theater, where the movie, War Is Hell, was just starting. The lights went up. The cop killer rose and cried: "This is it!" He aimed his revolver at one police man and pulled the trigger-but the weapon failed to fire. The cops jumped him and there was a fierce, brief struggle. Hauled bruised and kicking to police...
Dillinger himself was a longtime admirer of Douglas Fairbanks. When robbing banks, he vaulted over the partition to the cashier's cage rather than force his way through the door. He loved the gallant gesture: when he ordered a bank clerk to lie flat during one of his holdups, he insisted on spreading a teller's smock for her on the floor...