Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard heavyweight crew enters a new league this summer, -- international and club competition, including the Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia...
...Lawn Tennis Association for playing on the Davis Cup team, or the track stars who compete for phonographs and TV sets. "Professional" is no longer a term of derogation; it is a synonym for superb. No longer does the golf pro come in the back door of the country club; he may even own the club. The professional baseball player no longer travels coach on a train; he flies by jet. It is no longer a shameful act for a Bill Bradley -a banker's son, an Ivy Leaguer, a Rhodes scholar, a student of philosophy, politics and economics...
...Park offers pooped passers-by a respite at little white tables and chairs in a setting of geraniums, honey locust trees, and a 20-ft. waterfall whose roar all but drowns out the yowl of city traffic. Paley opened his $1,000,000 oasis, last occupied by the Stork Club, with no ceremony other than allowing his mother, Mrs. Samuel Paley, to push the button that started the waterfall. "You should have seen her face," he reported happily...
Died. Raymond Smith, 80, founder of Reno's Harolds Club and a pioneer of mass gambling, a onetime carnival worker who launched the club named after his son in 1935 with one roulette wheel and two battered slot machines, built it into the world's biggest casino under one roof (20,000 customers daily), and finally cashed in when he and his sons sold out in 1962 to an Eastern syndicate for $17,500,000; of cancer; in Reno...
...word of such coups get around, Founder Wells issued a sort of Madison Avenue manifesto promising more Braniff-style "advertising that will generate, as a byproduct, its own publicity." Western Union, Burma Shave and La Rosa spaghetti, she says, came clamoring for "a Braniff or an Alka-Seltzer." Utica Club beer signed up with the explanation that "it is once in a decade that an agency like this is formed...