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...increase their chances of hitting a homer, producers are relying more than ever on advance ticket sales. By far the best way to peddle tickets before opening night is to hire a name star, e.g., Ethel Merman, whose cult is large and enthusiastic. Twelve backers, including NBC, coughed up $450,000 to provide Merman with Happy Hunting. As anticipated, she drove her sputtering vehicle to solvency before the first-night curtain. The advance sale: $1,500,000. Part of this take came from theater parties, a growing force on Broadway, which trade tickets for contributions to charity. (Happy Hunting drew...
This phrase once meant a passing acquaintance with genius and knowledge. A man who had read Homer was well on his way to being educated. But at that time the people who read Homer were more likely to be looking for education, which they found in Homer. Now they read Homer because it is required, and expect education to take care of itself. Unfortunately, education never takes care of itself. And so the University is beginning to believe that they must take care of it for the students. While this is by definition impossible, it is also necessary if Harvard...
...days after the inauguration, Dick Nixon announced that the future held something else in store for him: a new home. He had signed a contract to buy (for $75,000 on a property appraised at $67,500) the 21-room (six bedrooms), old stone house owned by the late Homer Cummings, onetime (1933-39) Democratic Attorney General. The approximate moving date to fashionable Wesley Heights in northwest Washington: mid-March...
...money policy will probably find rough going in the 85th Congress, since Texan Patman is one of Capitol Hill's most outspoken critics of FRB's credit-pinching policies. In the Senate, the Administration can look for little help. A resolution by Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart, authorizing a non-partisan presidential commission, is sleeping quietly in the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, has little chance of being reported out before the end of February, if then...
...cropping up in North Dakota for a long time: a new name for the state, something that was more romantic-anything, in fact, that would make North Dakota sound gay, cheerful as a bottle of champagne. That is how the question stood. Legislators were batting new names around, and Homer Ludwick had hope in his heart. Perhaps they would drop "North," and call it "Dakota." Or maybe "Miami," someone suggested, or "Dixie," or "East Guadalajara," or, with a nod to their Canadian neighbor, "South Manitoba." Maybe even "Welk...