Word: coins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would put it: To get off the nut (i.e., earn back the investment) in a bigtime nitery operation now, a boniface has to do boffo biz seven nights a week, and even then he may wind up flivving. Reason: the top-liners are slugging the spots for too much coin. The latest of the show bizites to feel the pinch are Manhattan's Lou Walters, whose "six-stage, super-Broadway showcase," Café de Paris, is deep in the red after only a month's operation, and Brooklyn's Ben Maksik, who last week shut down...
Owners are bitter at the stars who made their reputations in clubs and are now biting the hands that fed them. As things stand, the expensive talent gravitates to a few favorite spots in Florida and Las Vegas. So where does the poor boniface put his coin these days? The only blue chips, according to Variety, are the little intimate places and a couple of hotel and club plusheries in each of the really hub metropoli...
...seven. Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian got a Turkish five-shilling piece as a present and promptly rushed to the bazaar with it to buy an old coin. The boy's father unprophetically chided Calouste on his earliest recorded financial deal: "If that's the way you're going to use your money, you'll end up in the gutter...
Married to a young economist named Reed R. Porter, Sylvia landed a job with a Wall Street broker who packed her off to Bermuda with ten suitcases containing $175,000 in gold coin just before the U.S. went off the gold standard in 1933. Sylvia sold the gold for pounds, purchased British bonds, brought them back to the U.S., turned them into dollars for a pretty profit. With this practical experience behind her, Sylvia in 1935 persuaded the Post to hire her as a financial reporter. Three years later the Post warily gave her a column under the byline...
...much of his adult life playing cops and robbers, riding around town with Houston policemen in a Cadillac equipped with two-way radio, four telephones and built-in racks for assorted firearms. Living up to his nickname, he had outsize pockets tailored into his trousers to hold eight 20-coin rolls of silver dollars for handing around as tips, passing out to strangers, or just scattering on floors or sidewalks...