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...arrived, they registered at the hotel as mother and daughter, and got right to work. G.E.-Man Rinker picked up the tab for their suite-the customers picked up the tab for -their services. Two months later another call went out to Nella, this time for a blonde to liven up a party for local dealers. Her fee for the evening: $100 which Rinker "drew out of petty cash...
...time, and Podoloff was elected president of the Basketball Association of America. The association, coughed along, and in 1949 became the N.B.A. The crowds had been staying away in busloads, and teams were losing as much as $100,000 a season; there was no time to waste. To liven the game, Podoloff fostered a new rule requiring a team to shoot 24 seconds after it gets its hands on the ball. He cajoled the N.B.A. teams into abandoning the stolid, slow-moving zone defense, and persuaded TV officials to carry games on the air. The combination of change and promotion...
Tootling into Thailand to liven up the U.S. exhibit at an international fair, Bandleader Benny Goodman and his 14 musicians were soon summoned to Bangkok's royal palace for a command performance. For an hour, as King Phumiphon, 29, himself both a jazzy hornblower and composer (Blue Night), and Queen Sirikit tapped in tempo, Goodman and his men swung out such tunes as On the Sunny Side of the Street and a royalty-requested Lazy River. The King then gave each member of Goodman & Co. a crested silver cigarette case, was in turn presented with a handsome clarinet. That...
Time for a Change. In Anderson, S.C., charged with malicious mischief after he set off two sticks of dynamite at a political rally, ex-Convict Andes ("Footsie") Wood explained to cops: "I did it just to liven up the meeting a bit. I couldn't see who was talking from where...
Only when the heroine goes into her ''dance of vengeance" do things liven up again. At that point Conductor Mitropoulos took over the dancer's role for himself, shrugging one shoulder grotesquely to the syncopated piano rhythm, splaying the fingers of his left hand to the spastic tempos. The music got more conventional in texture as it got noisier, but ultimately, sheer noise was sufficient: as the last, clubbing chord thundered out, the Philharmonic's subscribers gasped, and then burst into applause...