Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Only four months ago, he completed what he hopes was his last engagement on the "chitlin circuit"-a string of small Negro nightclubs such as Cleveland's Corner Tavern, San Francisco's Sugar Hill, St. Louis' Riviera. In most of them, the singer perches on a dime-sized platform above the bar and tries to make himself heard above the jingle of the cash register and the jangle of the audience. And it was in just such places that Rawls learned how to grab attention by spitting out rapid-fire monologues about anything that came to mind...
...allowed to eat in the graduate cafeteria as an alternative to having lunch in their own dorms. They are given an allotment of 80 cents per day, which was ample in the days when hamburgers were 30 cents, cottage cheese a nickel, and ice cream and fruit, only a dime...
...Elsie's, in a dramatic move Wednesday, foiled them outright and raised the price a dime. Quality stays...
...endured nearly three years, which was approaching the average time that Woolworth Heiress Barbara Mutton, 54, had spent with her six previous husbands. So naturally, when Babs left Tangiers a few weeks ago without No. 7, Laotian Prince Raymond Doan Vinh, 50, gossips assumed that the five-and-dime princess was making a change again. "Untrue," the prince said blandly during a stopover in Manhattan on the way to rejoin his wife at her $3,000,000 walled estate near Cuernavaca, Mexico. "All that gossip started in Tangiers, a small town where they have nothing else to do. Actually...
Died. James Paul Donahue, 51, grandson of Dime Store Magnate F. W. Woolworth and first cousin of Heiress Barbara Hutton, a lifelong bachelor who was the stereotype of the high-living, chorine-chasing playboy of the 1930s, then settled down to become a charity fund raiser and enough of an arts patron to donate $100,000 to the new Metropolitan Opera House; of visceral congestion; in Manhattan...