Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fresh from Joan Littlewood's Oh What a Lovely War, the Harvard Dramatic Club Summer Players launched last night an equally impressive production of a totally different play: Euripides' The Bacchac...
Nobody was accusing Busch, Humphrey or Baseball Fan Turner of any wrongdoing. Still, reporters inquired tenderly of White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers whether businessmen might not get the impression that the President's Club was a vehicle for buying favor from the Administration. No more so, deadpanned Moyers, than the Rockefeller family's contributions to the G.O.P. were aimed at buying favor. Actually, explained the Justice Depart ment, the antitrust suit against Anheuser-Busch was a weak one and had been dropped "on the merits alone...
Clams & Claws. Maybe the Orioles won't win. But at the very least, they are the kookiest cast of characters who ever called themselves a ball club. First Baseman Boog Powell is (at 6 ft. 4½ in. and 246 lbs.) one of the biggest men in baseball, and he spent seven years perfecting the fine art of tobacco chewing-"the trick," says Powell, "is not to swallow." Leftfielder Curt Blefary keeps a pet cocker spaniel that has scrambled eggs and Coke for breakfast. "Ugh," says Blefary, who has been known to start his own day with clam chowder...
...vice president of TWA, has achieved a remarkable corporate revival since the 1963 retirement of World War I Ace Eddie Rickenbacker. By the time Hall took over, Eastern's shoddy service had led to the formation of an informal but nationwide WHEAL (for "We Hate Eastern Air Lines") club. Today, that club is only a memory. Equipment and service have vastly improved. From a $37.8 million loss in 1963, Eastern rebounded to a $29.7 million profit last year, managed to make the best return on investment (12.8%) among the big lines; TWA was second at 12.2% . But Eastern...
...certainly does. The first-class passenger is deluged with free cocktails, champagne and steak-filet meals, offered a concert on earphones as well as movies. The stewardesses even wake people up to give them eyeshades for sounder sleeping. To woo frequent business travelers, American has a club for businessmen's secretaries, buys them dinners and takes them to the movies. Eastern sends secretaries flowers and seed packets...