Word: coast-to-coast
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...Toro, the bewildered victim, is nominally "owned" by a lewd fat man, Vince Vanneman, who fixes every one of his fights on a coast-to-coast tour that Eddie promotes into a triumphal march. Nick, the powerful and deadly racketeer who actually owns El Toro as he owns Eddie, also owns the aging heavyweight champion, Gus Lennert. Gus is soon to retire, after drawing one big purse for getting massacred by the challenger, Buddy Stein, and another for doing a nose dive before El Toro. Nick has all the elements nicely calculated except his wife, Ruby, a ladylike...
...Sinatra with quality." His first record (of I Have But One Heart and Ivy), released six weeks ago, had already sold 100,000 copies. Damone fan clubs were fizzing up like hot pop. And last week young Vic had binged into big-time radio as star of the coast-to-coast Saturday Night Serenade (10-10:30 p.m., CBS). "Geez," he said, "altogether I'm making a thousand a week...
...find out what was on the U.S. mind, and then write a series about it. Brisk and brilliant Barbara Ward, who at 32 is a kind of younger, softer-voiced, English edition of Dorothy Thompson, went at it in a big way. Her research project turned into a coast-to-coast lecture tour, with radio dates and extra speeches thrown in. She gave as many interviews as she got, and never ran out of breath or big, round statements. When a Washington reporter asked her to "say something weighty," she heaved him one: "Well, the cost of world...
Then he got ready to swing off on a four-week, coast-to-coast speaking tour. For this, the advance noise was already terrific. Hollywood Bowl officials started most of it by canceling a Wallace speech on the shaky excuse that they did not want the 20,000-seat amphitheater used as "a springboard for ideologies foreign to the majority." This was too much even for the arch-conservative Los Angeles Times. While Wallace backers, delighted at the publicity, signed up the 18,000-seat Gilmore Stadium, the Times editorialized: "We should not gag a bray...
Next week, with no banquets, no pious speeches, no coast-to-coast hookups, the organization will observe its 30th anniversary. All Friends in the U.S. will be asked to pray and meditate in silence upon the responsibilities of the American Friends Service Committee...