Word: harold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harold Luellan, a Sunday-school administrator at Kansas City's Roanoke Presbyterian Church...
...Harold Stassen, politician...
After Tory defeats in two by-elections and reduced margins in three more, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's political enemies once again were crying for his scalp. Emboldened by its own gains in the votes, Labor sharpened its criticism of Macmillan's government, and even critics among the Tories themselves now referred to the onetime "Macwonder" as "Mr. Macfail." This made good chatter in pubs; but by-elections are hardly representative of a whole nation's mood. In any case, the Tories would not have to call a general election until 1964. Until then, Macmillan could fall...
...after more than 20 years' absence, burlesque is grinding away again in Manhattan. This week marks the 40th for a show called This Was Burlesque, starring Ann Corio, durable (circa 50) doyenne of U.S. strippers. And Harold Minsky, whose very name used to mean runways and rhinestones, tassel twirlers, talking women and top bananas, is back in town with a new show for the first time since militantly moral Mayor Fiorello La Guardia banished burlesque and even the word Minsky from theater marquees...
Tomtoms, Teddies. Harold Minsky, 48, is the first to admit that his Follies at the International, a Broadway nightclub, is not classic burlesque. Its bumps have been shock-absorbed into harmless thank -you-ma'ams, and its grinds are exceeding fine. But only a purist could carp: it is a spectacularly busty pageant, flashily costumed, dizzyingly aswarm with near-nude (pasties here and here, a twinkly bikini there) show girls. If it owes a greater debt to the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas than to Minsky's old National Winter Garden theater on Houston Street, that...