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Jokes & Jazz. The really cozy just-good-dancing places-like Larue's or Le Coq Rouge, where the beat once was clear, strong and pleasant-have all but disappeared. Also gone, for the most part, is the local, rooted talent. Most entertainers nowadays travel a national circuit whose hub is Las Vegas and whose periphery is TV. The jokes and the songs are the same in New York as they are in Chicago or on the Jack Paar show...
From Buffalo, the second largest city of the state and the hub of heavily industrialized Erie County, Millard Brown, chief editorial writer of the Evening News, told the CRIMSON yesterday: "There's a pretty substantial Kennedy movement here, and he's pretty popular among suburban Republicans...
...crowd enthusiasm. Yet on Thursday, September 29, a large number of the members of the Students for Nixon-Lodge found themselves squarely in the middle of certainly one of the most tumultuous, (at least, pulse- and awe inspiring) greetings ever accorded any candidate in the seemingly reserved Hub...
...hub cap (hot-rod jargon)-conceited type
...made possible because all of its stars are in Vegas for the filming of Frank's new movie, Ocean's II. But the nightly "meetings," says Frank in a masterfully mixed metaphor, "could not have come off without the Speaker of the House-Joey Bishop, the hub of the big wheel...