Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wear Chanel suits in Paris and New York. She never wears shorts ("You have to be a girl to wear shorts; nobody but a child looks right in them"). In her early Palm Beach days, in fact, Gloria was torn by a dilemma. A dress was too chic for downtown wear, she decided, and of course shorts wouldn't do. "So I appeared on Worth Avenue in trousers from Capri." Suddenly everybody was wearing Capri pants, and "suddenly they became vulgar. In a way, I am to blame for all that happened...
...days, nobody in Jefferson County (pop. 245,659) had to look hard for diversion. Downtown clubs and suburban roadhouses sported open bars in defiance of Texas' liquor laws. Bookmakers' tote boards were visible through many a plate-glass window; odds were available on everything from Florida horse races to Beaumont high school football games. Madams of the 20 brothels offered special matinee rates for teenagers. The law looked on amiably (though there was a police order ruling the brothels off limits to 14-year-olds and under). Only one gambling arrest was recorded in Beaumont in 35 years...
roiled taxpayers, drove some motorists into paroxysms of fury by putting in oneway streets ("Look, sonny," bawled one oldtimer to a cop who stopped him. "I've been driving this way on this street for 20 years, and no traffic engineer is going to stop me now!"). On downtown street corners, Barnes instituted the scramble plan (first tried in Vancouver, B.C. in the late '30s), in which all traffic lights turn red and the pedestrians are permitted to cross every which way till the lights switch back to normal red-and-green sequence. The plan was instantly labeled...
...dingy downtown headquarters of Hearst's Los Angeles morning Examiner stepped Managing Editor William A. Townes, 52. Suddenly he was trapped in the glare of television floodlights. Bill Stout, newscaster for Los Angeles station KTLA, had his microphone at the ready. Could Townes confirm persistent reports that the Examiner was about to die? No, said Townes, he could not. Then he added quietly: "I am sad because I believe the rumors are true...
...press, which fields 23 dailies, all of which compete with the big-city dailies for both readers and ads. In these communities, with their glittering, fast-growing shopping centers, local merchants are showing an increasing inclination to give their advertising to the local publisher-at the expense of the downtown dailies...