Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soiled afterthought of a goatee. The smutched, shoulder-length mane wagged damply beneath a fly-blown Stetson. "All of that and all of that." The waving arms and lying words swished briefly before gaudy posters of improbable freaks. Somehow, out of the rain-bedraggled midway of the Gratz (Pa.) Fair, a crowd gathered. It always does when the harsh, vocal magic of Colonel Lew Alter begins to turn the tip (con the rubes) into his new "Can It Be Possible?" show...
...Shake It, Gal." At the Cobb County Fair in Marietta, Ga., the purple cotton candy and the foot-long hot dogs were going great. Duck-tailed farm boys and their girls rode the Ferris wheel for a high-arcing view of the cornfields of home. The talker (spieler) turned them in for 72-year-old Jim Jagger, fire eater ("I will amaze you by rubbing the burning torch over various parts of my body and anatomy"), a tattoo artist and human pincushion. The sword swallower put away a 10-in. blade ("I'll ram it down my bread basket...
...Abilene, where a cool breeze rippled off the dusty West Texas plains, sharp-booted Texans and their women paid due homage to the "West Texas Fair," took in the livestock and the rodeo, then moved eagerly to the midway. The tip built up in front of the girlie shows (one Negro, one white), and their talker began his pitch: "This, folks, is Jody, who taught those Frenchmen in Paris something about the great American art of the striptease." The crowd rolled in at six bits a head. "Shake it, gal!" they yelled, happily ignorant that Dancer Anita Lopez...
...more of a crowd, but Pauline was against it. "We're Catholics, you see. I always tell people that ask where the girl show is that they should save their $1.50 and get their wives to take off their clothes and dance around nude at home." "Aw," answers Fair Secretary Irving Pratt, when the subject comes up, "my wife can't dance...
...Workers' President Walter Reuther last week settled with Ford for far less. He got just about what Ford-and the other carmakers-offered back in April. Reuther joined with Ford Vice President and Chief Negotiator John Bugas to announce "a sound and equitable agreement ... a three-year contract .. . fair to the workers, the company and the American public...