Word: jukeboxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Negro grocers and a registered voter. First his bread deliveries were stopped. Then his meat deliveries. No longer would wholesalers sell him gasoline, soft drinks, beer, candy. His jukebox was disconnected and carted away. "I'm sorry," said his meat supplier. "There's three of you Negro grocers in the county and 175 of them, and they say if I sell anything to you three, they'll not buy another penny's worth." To survive, Franklin now drives 43 miles to Memphis several times a week, buys from a cash-and-carry warehouse...
...usual, life imitated art; bathing suits last week agitated the U.S. scene far beyond the realm of the jukebox...
Plant Restaurants. Most aggressive new entrant into vending-machine manufacturing is Chicago's Seeburg Corp., biggest U.S. jukebox manufacturer, which is run by 34-year-old Delbert W. Coleman (TIME, Oct. 27, 1958). Within the past 18 months, Seeburg has acquired four vending-machine makers (cigarettes, fresh brew and powdered coffee, soft drinks in bottles and in cups), added a fifth last week. Seeburg plans to bring out two new machines (milk and candy) in the near future to broaden its line. Coleman expects the company's sales to rise 15% to $26 million this year (35% from...
...voted down. Monitor Smith, unaccountably reversing his former stand, accused O'Donoghue of being obsessed with "getting Hoffa." Then last fortnight Monitor Maher announced he would retire because of heart trouble. Hoffa named as his successor Detroit Lawyer William E. Bufalino, president of Teamster Local 985, a jukebox operators' and car washers' union described by the Senate rackets committee as "a leech preying upon workingmen and women to provide personal aggrandizement for Mr. Bufalino and his friends...
Born. To Jose Ferrer, 48, Hollywood and Broadway actor and director, and Rosemary Clooney, 31, jukebox and screen songstress: their fifth child, third son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Raphael Francisco. Weight...