Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show its hips: a new TV series began last month, called The Trad Fad. With a clear and poundingly straightforward beat that avoids the more intricate mathematics of modern jazz, trad centers in such items as Tiger Rag and Cushion Foot Stomp, but often goes absolutely daft with kick-me-baby versions of things like Billy Boy and In a Persian Garden...
...provoke. The stunt of putting an outboard motor in a gondola was perpetrated by Gino Macropodio, who led his 350 fellow gondoliers in their latest protest against the growing encroachment of motorized craft in Venice. The motoscafi, strikers pointed out, violate the canals' 7-m.p.h. speed limit and kick up waves that further weaken the foundations of the slowly sinking city. Some motorboatmen also violate the city ordinance limiting their working hours from midnight to 6 a.m., carry passengers and small freight afterhours in competition with gondolas...
...could possibly get from Joe Louis and still leave him with some hope that he can live," declared an Internal Revenue official last year. But last week the once peerless puncher, currently shuffling through a semi-soft-shoe act in a Detroit cabaret revue, was conscientiously dickering to kick back half his salary (reportedly $1,000 a week) as part payment on his 1946-52 tax arrears of more than $1,250,000. "I owe it. It was my fault," insisted the Brown Bomber. "And with all this Berlin stuff and getting a man to the moon, they gonna need...
Next month Fuoss will send the rejuvenated Post to the newsstands, complete with a new price: 20? instead of 15?. To soften up the public, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn will soon kick off a $1,250,000 nationwide ad drive. The Post's new look and stance, said an adman who went to Philadelphia for a close look at the revamped format, "may infuriate some long-term readers, and there may be turnover in the audience. But it is good enough to bring in new readers as fast as it loses old ones." Fuoss says that...
...Kicks & Kickbacks. Glimco had been particularly freehanded with Local 777's treasury. He authorized the purchase of no less than $11,973 worth of flowers and charged them to the local. He spent $4,289 on a party for Jimmy Hoffa. He and his secretary took a $1,045 trip posing as man and wife, charged it off to Local 777 as "entertainment expense." They also took joint title to a house built by Contractor Frank Pantaleo, who happened to be refurbishing the local's union hall at a king-size cost of $85,325. For a while...