Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business was still off $26 million from the previous year. Most surprising success of the moviemaking year: Columbia's Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, which cost a mere $660,000, has taken in $6,000,000 since it opened in December. ¶ For a cool $75,000, Harold Minsky's burlesque show (38 girls, three comedians) flew to Chicago from Las Vegas' swank Dunes Hotel to put on one performance for 1,200 conventioneers from the National Homebuilders Association. Said one homebuilder: "This is exactly the sort of thing this industry needs. We're too stodgy...
...mood for mercy. "They are criminals," he said. "Everybody knows that. We give them a fair trial. Mothers come in and say, 'This man killed my son.' " To demonstrate, Castro offered to stage the courts-martial in Havana's Central Park-an unlikely spot for cool justice but perfect for a modern-day Madame Defarge...
...Tinkling Piano in the Next Apartment (Herm Saunders; Warner Bros. LP). "Caution!" says the record jacket. "Play softly, it's cool inside." The menace is not the heat-or lack of it-but the humidity; in a mystifying effort, the record makers have dubbed in sounds of cheetering sea gulls and the tumbling waves of "a mythical Malibu." The Sea-Around-Us effect is unfortunate only because what comes filtering through the combers-in These Foolish Things and I'll Remember April-seems to be a fine and lacily fanciful cocktail piano...
Timex All-Star Jazz Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.)." Just like the three previous all-star jam sessions. A real hep crew-Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Gene Krupa-blasting out cool tunes...
...Perfect Partners. Brooklyn-born Betty and Bronx-born Adolph complement each other perfectly. As a performer Betty is ironic but cool and soothing-a superior psychiatric nurse. Adolph, with his rubber-kneed strut, his wild hair and mad eyes, is clearly her patient...