Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talent scout combs the show business world for new acts. (Harrah's has long since learned to vary its shows by the clock-organ music from 6 a.m. until noon, building to wild, brassy jazz when things heat up after midnight.) All Bill Harrah's dealers, half of whom are women, are trained in his own school. None of them are allowed to smoke, drink or chew gum on duty; careful research has even chosen what Harrah considers to be the most effective bad-breath tablets (Binaca) to be used while working. A Hollywood designer was called...
...When Madison Avenue seers decided that the kiddies do not comprise much of a market, even a high rating could not save one of the best kid shows on the air. Sponsors deserted Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club, and this season it was cut to half an hour, all reruns. Next season, says Disney, it will probably be gone for good...
...Dave Lawrence saw the picture in a new frame: the generally Republican Inquirer used it again, this time to illustrate an editorial of full-blown praise for Lawrence. "Head bowed in thought," said the Inquirer, "hands lifted in almost prayerful meditation or reaching out to emphasize some point, eyes half closed as he ponders a question, the Governor is revealed as a man under great stress-and as a man who is determinedly thinking his way through." Thus made to appear as a statesman instead of a pol, Pennsylvania's Lawrence sought out Photographer Vathis. "Accept my humblest apologies...
...drivers pick up bundled papers at the loading docks, truck them to the city's 16,000 newsstands and to certain distribution points in the city and the suburbs. From this strategic position, as testimony last week revealed, the hoods who front for the haulers exacted more than half a million dollars in tribute-probably a fraction of the total take-from New York publishers and distributors willing to buy "labor peace" at any price. Items...
...Theodore O. Thackrey, onetime editor of the New York Post, ran into difficulties with the haulers in his attempt to publish a new tabloid, the left-wing Compass. Referred to an ex-convict (bail jumping, dope peddling) named Irving Bitz, Thackrey paid Bitz $10.000-half what Bitz demanded-for a trouble-free contract with the Deliverers. After collecting the money, Bitz introduced Thackrey to Joseph Simons, then president of the Deliverers' union. The Compass died three years later, but it had no trouble with Simons' union...