Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus ended the latest round of hearings on the Teamsters, which added up to the greatest blot on the record of U.S. organized labor. As for Slippery Jim, he announced that he will call a special Teamster election for February (at a cost of $1,500,000) to get out from under the three monitors appointed by a Federal District Court last January to see to it that Jimmy cleans up his union. At week's end two of the three monitors asked the court to cancel plans for the election because Hoffa has not even begun to comply...
...that a mark (sucker) got much for his money when he bought a ticket (50? for adults, 30? for kids) to Lew Alter's sideshow. It cost an extra dime to see the "Pickled Punk" (two questionable sets of Siamese twins preserved in formaldehyde), another quarter for a glimpse of Carmelita, the "Hermaphrodite." ("Ladies on one side of the curtain, please, and the gentlemen on the other. Wives may stand with their husbands.") Following the colonel himself past the animal cages was an olfactory experience. Living in a trailer with Devil, the two-nosed dog, a spider monkey named...
Absorbing the Cost. Coral executives actually heard Hula Hoop 24 hours before Roulette did, but they lost valuable time by assigning it at first to a new female vocal group. Then the word got around that Roulette was recording Hula with Songstress Georgia Gibbs, and Coral executives decided that "we would have to come up with a big name, too." Their choice: Songstress Teresa Brewer. In the mad scramble that followed, Georgia beat Teresa into the record shops by one day, was further aided by the fact that she was able to sing the song on The Ed Sullivan Show...
Harvard needs money, partly because she must pay for the cost of an improved telephone exchange. So we suggest that the administration make the best of an unpleasant situation by replacing a dull yet informative message by the following announcement...
...initial issue, the publication noted that postal rates have made the cost of mailing the H.A.A. News to Varsity Club members prohibitive. Since the News is a football program, it has further been criticized as providing inadequate coverage of all intercollegiate sports, according to the newsletter...