Word: garlanding
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...fare from Manhattan, but it fields a line of first-class talent most clubs would hock their silverware to buy. Its big neon bill of fare regularly blazons such names as Harry Belafonte, Jerry Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Milton Berle, Tony Bennett. Last week, even with an ailing (laryngitis) Judy Garland as its husk-voiced headliner. the T. & C. was packing upwards of 2,000 patrons a show (including those in the bar and private dining room) under its high, star-spattered ceiling...
...leave after the first show to make room for the second shift). With such a take the club can afford weekly salaries that make even roulette-rich Vegas boggle: $40,000 a week for Jerry Lewis' act, $34,000 for Harry Belafonte's, $25,000 for Judy Garland...
...London in 1931: "You people have your plus fours. These are my minus fours." In the best sequences, faded with age, there was "your father"-with metal-rimmed spectacles, a big, near-toothless grin, the dollar watch dangling from the dhoti-who tenderly encircled a little girl with a garland of flowers that she had brought...
...with a mixture of zinc dust and sulphur. They lit it and ran. "It was just like the Flopnik [Vanguard]," said Billy, "going great at first. Then it just folded." When they returned to investigate, the rocket exploded. Johnny and Billy were lucky; a few weeks earlier, Science Teacher Garland Foster of the Floydada, Texas high school was killed while demonstrating a somewhat smaller rocket...
...Trib editorial permitted itself a single understatement: "The case itself is a relatively trivial one." It grew, explained the editorial, out of "certain remarks" about Judy Garland that Columnist Torre attributed to "a CBS spokesman." Now that Singer Garland is suing CBS for $1,000,000 for those remarks, her lawyers need to know−and the Trib will not say&8722;who the spokesman was. Nowhere in its ten-column coverage did the paper report what the CBS spokesman said. The nub of his remarks: Judy "won't make up her mind about anything. We just think...