Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London...
...came to the City and fled to Grand Central, the relentless heart of the world, beating us on and on in our journey to the Brain. And there we squeezed on, through track 29, for New Haven, New London, Providence, and Boston. From all walks of life, levelled and commingled by the frozen hand of nature, we battered and battled our ways into the train, and flung ourselves to the hard green bristles of its promiscuous lap. Mingling and yearning, touching and tonguing the mysteries of their separate tunnels of life, they slowly begin, as the train picks up speed...
...London's stately Albert Hall has long been a choice working ground for the piebald bevy of street musicians, sing ers and dancers known as buskers. Let a ticket line form on the sidewalk out side and the buskers were there to clown, sing and fiddle, while their bottlers (assistants) passed the hat for coppers and shillings like Dickensian urchins in the night. Last week there were no buskers on the sidewalk. Instead, 40 of them were inside giving the concert of their lives. And no one had to pass a hat: more than 3,700 persons paid...
...concert was "a dream come true" for the greatest busker of all, Don Partridge, 26, who plied his trade in the streets of London for five years singing traditional English and American folk songs. One day last winter, a record company executive named Don Paul heard Partridge sing his own song, Rosie, on a street corner; he liked its cheerfulness and Partridge's McCartneyesque style...
...substitute for the old road, three new types of "road" have been developing for straight plays in recent years. The most established of these is the London route. Such plays as Hadrian the Seventh, Man in the Glass Booth, and The Homecoming were London successes brought to New York by American producers. This is not foolproof, since London hits can still be New York flops (such as Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane...