Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When George Murphy speaks, the easy Irish charm of an old-style city ward heeler pours forth. His blue eyes, set off by pink cheeks and carefully coifed, grey-streaked hair, throw a friendly glint. At the slightest sound of applause, Murphy is transported happily back to the heyday, 25 years ago, when he song-and-danced his way across the nation's cinema screens. Then the ham in him surfaces, and he talks and talks and talks until his aides tug at him and tell him it is time to quit...
...heyday of the radio serial, roughly from 1933 to 1956, the heroes changed actors dozens of times. There were three Lone Rangers, two of whom are still alive and collecting royalties. Unfortunately for scores of actors who might otherwise be cashing in on the reruns, no one ever bothered to keep recordings of such microphone memorabilia as Buck Rogers, Jack Armstrong, or even Little Orphan Annie; if any exist, there are not enough to put together a series...
Hidden Records. In the quickie heyday, thousands of outsiders flocked to Alabama to get divorced between lunch and cocktails. Alabama acquired-for at least an hour-such famous citizens as baseball's Hank Greenberg, Mrs. Aristotle ("Tina") Onassis and TV's John Daly (so he could marry the daughter of Chief Justice Earl Warren). Some quickie lawyers raked in as much as $200,000 a year. In 1961 the Alabama Bar Association threatened to disbar lawyers knowingly involved in phony quickies. That cut the Alabama divorce rate by almost one-third, but quickie business persisted, notably...
MATT A-lolas, 15 East 55th. Chile-born, Paris-based Matta was a bright young acolyte in surrealism's heyday, but that label is too limiting for his talents. The variety of this excellent show proves that he is not to be confined by it. There are huge new spatial fireworks, exploding with the motion of the machine age, smaller works on the same theme, drawings and lithographs. But most interesting is a series of pastels that Matta calls Cabezas (portraits): four black, brutish simulations of heads that are magnificently ugly. Through...
...matter how good they are, their fans usually go home reminiscing about how great they used to be. The big bands began to slip with the death of swing in the early '40s; they grew even more obscure during rock 'n' roll's heyday...