Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sapio, like his good friend Harry Truman, favors the Symington candidacy. Lawrence let it be known that his heart still belongs to Adlai Stevenson ("the most capable man in either party to be President"), but those who talked to Lawrence thought they detected brain waves for Symington. Both bosses entertain strong private doubts about a fellow Catholic's chances of winning the presidency, and both would be naturals for any anti-Kennedy coalition...
Collected around a nucleus of University of Chicago alumni, the players stand on a high platform: "We are Aristotelian in the true sense; we entertain while we instruct. We slip the message in between the laughs. Our target is pomposity." Chicagoans like both the laughs and the message; the group's sharp entertainment goes far toward relieving Chicago's country-cousin complex as the U.S.'s second city. Even the Tribune praised the show for its "sparkle and sauciness, speed and irreverence." Oedipus Revisited. If the Second City comedians have a trademark, it is "The Living Newspaper...
...found that Capital's chief hostess, who interviewed Patricia, had marked her application "B+," which means "accepted for future employment." "The chief hostess," found the commission, "changed it to 'see again' at the direction of the director of passenger service." The commission's conclusion: "We entertain no doubt that Miss Banks would have been reinterviewed and employed, had she been white." Since Capital does a "substantial amount of its business in the State of New York." and conducts some 22 pre-employment procedures there, the commission argued that it has jurisdiction. Capital got 30 days...
...frame house in a Stockholm suburb. Bergman is up at 7:30. At 9:15 a studio chauffeur delivers him to SF, at 5 takes him home. After supper he sets up the next day's work, goes early to bed. The Bergmans rarely entertain-too much trouble. He coolly observes: "We have to administer our gifts." Bergman likes his wife to wear light makeup. "I don't want her to look like a movie actress," he says...
...evening, busloads of pretty Okinawan hostesses pull up to the blue-and-white-striped awning before the Kadena Airmen's Club (for airmen up to corporal's rank), and the gaily chattering girls-each of whom has passed a physical exam-hurry inside to dance with and entertain G.I.s. The charge for an evening's companionship...