Word: likes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make the mistake of thinking those TV cameras are branches of the United States Mint. Dollar bills don't come out of them like bread from a bakery oven." This advice by Disk Jockey Dick Clark appears in a new book, Your Happiest Years (Rosho Corp.; $2.95), aiming sound moral advice at teenagers. Yet in a mere three years, ever since he took over the local Philadelphia show that grew into ABC's American Bandstand, Dick Clark has found plenty of bread in the oven. Among the loaves: three other ABC shows, an advice-to-teeners column...
Some people think less of him. Says Arnold Shaw of the music-publishing firm of E. B. Marks: "Someone like Clark is a one-man trust." Adds Marty Mills of Mills Music, Inc.: "People know that Clark will lay it on [i.e., plug a song] if he's got any stake...
...hired gunmen who have come to a small Michigan town to rub out a doublecrossing Swedish prizefighter. When The Killers appeared on CBS's Buick Electra Playhouse last week, the story's reading time of six minutes had been blown up to 90, and it sagged like an Add-A-Pearl, between an elaborate preamble and a rambling finale...
...being unhappy, these people should be thankful . . . Look and see what some of these unhappy people were doing before they came to Warner Bros." But the actors were not buying that. Most echoed Maverick's James Garner, who makes a reported $1,750 a week: "I feel like a slab of meat hanging there; every once in a while they cut off a piece...
...suspense mounted. Lights were extinguished, musicians scrambled to their chairs on the bandstand. Eddie's father, Joe Fisher, a retired suitcase manufacturer from Philadelphia, turned to Aly Khan. "Prince," said he, "have some caviar. Me, I like herring." Aly nodded gravely. "Yes, Monsieur Fisher père," he replied, "when a herring is good, it is very, very good, but when it is not good, it is awful...