Word: music
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High Roller. At Harrah's, outside consultants are called in to study specialized problems such as transportation; a talent scout combs the show business world for new acts. (Harrah's has long since learned to vary its shows by the clock-organ music from 6 a.m. until noon, building to wild, brassy jazz when things heat up after midnight.) All Bill Harrah's dealers, half of whom are women, are trained in his own school. None of them are allowed to smoke, drink or chew gum on duty; careful research has even chosen what Harrah considers...
...newcomers name their craft for women (Miss Sal, Lulu, Shady Lady), men (Jim Jam, Little Bub, Crafty Chris), in memeriam (Last Cent, Mama's Mink, Overtime), music (Rock 'n' Roll, Intermezzo), the sea (Blue Water, Sea Legs); little boats get little names (Yap Yap, Pixie); big ones get big names (Delphine, Trident, Chanticleer); and many are just hopefully witty (Tireless, Tubeless, Yacht-Ta-Ta). They doll up their boats with color TV sets, love to rig up the latest mariner's aids-radar, sounding devices, ship's-bell clocks, ship-to-shore telephones (more than...
...Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.)*Uncle Millie's last show of the season, uplifted by Carl Sandburg's return for more Poems to Play Jazz...
Meet McGraw (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The background music may not win any awards, and neither will McGraw, but his reruns still prove him to be one of the more efficient, amiable private eyes...
...folk music: "I used to be wild about folk songs, but now, after ten years of listening to them, I'm a little less wild. Folk music is like all good things; it attracts people who are pretentious and affectacious, but that doesn't detract from the songs themselves...