Word: clubmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suburbs: "My old customers have been lost to Great Neck." Broadway Producer Richard Kollmar once accused the LP record: "When you had the 78s, you had to get up and change the damned things every few minutes, so you got bored and went out.'' Other clubmen think that spectacular TV has satiated the public's appetite for shows, or that people simply do not dance any more (although dancing schools are jammed). Whatever the reason. Manhattan is down to two chorus lines (the Copacabana and the Latin Quarter, both of which float high on expense-account money...
First Lieut. Roy M. Cohn reported with 120 less renowned National Guard officers for a two-week stint of training duty at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss. Cohn took time out one evening to tell a group of local clubmen that everybody "should be trying to stop Communism," instead of criticizing his former boss, Senator Joseph McCarthy. His performance during the Army-McCarthy hearings having established him as something of an expert on the draft if not on wangling commissions, Cohn was naturally assigned to a group studying Selective Service. But when the nation's Selective Service...
There is little purpose in attempting to establish an Adams type. Figures show it to be a scholarly House, but there is a sizable athletic representation. Neither is there geographical predominance from Brooklyn, Boston, or Battle Creek, and there is a good distribution of clubmen, prep school alumni, and high school graduates...
...less select clubs are getting tired of having the responsibility for accepting the less desirable candidates while the big prestige clubs refuse to admit any one who does not measure up to their standards. While officials deny that there is any hierarchy of club prestige, lists compiled by clubmen, when asked to name the most prominent clubs are amazingly similar. The result is that some men, each year, withdraw their candidacy for club membership when all they receive is a single bid from a third rate organization that means nothing to them. So, the 100 per cent is illusory. Actually...
There are companions to suit any whim: athletes, scholars, clubmen, dilletantes, and worried pre-meds...