Word: gibsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Club. But he hung on to his job as president of the Madison Square Garden Corp., which owns every share of I.B.C. stock, thus remained the chief target of an antitrust judgment awaiting Supreme Court review and a grand-jury investigation of I.B.C. matchmaking. His successor at I.B.C.: Truman Gibson Jr., a Chicago Negro lawyer who represented ex-Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis...
...mother, a sister of Lady Astor and the late Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, was one of the five beautiful Langhorne sisters of Virginia...
...single concession to TV, the chatter is usually preceded by a Gibson-wrought gimmick: Gibson sliding onto the set in a Mercedes-Benz, riding a horse across stage, standing in a snowstorm outside flinging snowballs, or giving heli copter lessons from a whirlybird hovering above the station parking...
...Cliff. Born the son of a diet-faddist physician on a ranch near Palm Springs, Calif., Gibson grew up haunted with "recurrent dreams about clawing my way up the face of a cliff." At 18 he clawed his way onto the old Los Angeles Record because "at the time I was under the misapprehension that being on an afternoon paper meant that you worked only in the afternoon." Ever since, through numberless odd jobs on newspapers and in radio, he has been getting up "at the crack of dawn and hating every morning...
From the top of the cliff, Gibson claims to have "the most profitable participating radio show in the U.S.," with gross billings of about $1,000,000 a year. For his erratic ramblings-some bright, some boring-he draws about $150,000 a year, a sizable chunk of which goes to his five ex-wives. "I have to take 800 bucks a week right off the top for the gals before I start paying for anything else." Nonetheless, Gibson is still an avid gallant. Says he: "I love women; it's only wives I have trouble with...