Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seesaw. Love comes to Gittel Moscowitz in a pretty funny film version of William Gibson's play about what happens when a blue-eyed Babbitt from Omaha meets a blackstocking in Greenwich Village...
...funny, warm and surprisingly wise little comedy adapted by Isobel Lennart from the Broadway success (1958-59) by Playwright William Gibson. Like the play, the film tells the story of Gittel's affair with a visiting fireman who has run out of steam, a lawyer (Robert Mitchum) from Omaha whose problems gee with Gittel's. She has been a doormat for men, he has been a lap dog for his wife. He needs self-reliance, she needs self-respect...
...folk cave appropriately called The Know Where Fort Wayne, Ind., has a place called The fourth Shadow where people squat on the Hoor and sip espresso by candlelight over doors that have been made into tables Strings are jumping at The Jolly Coachman in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Incredibly Omaha, just across the river from Council Bluffs, has two places. The Third Man and The Crooked Ear where queues sometimes run to a hundred head, and the varied clientele-as in all cities-not only have beards, berets, and half-acre sweaters with turtle necks, but also thin-striped ties...
...reader to turn to an inside page. Its seven morning and five afternoon editions, with a combined circulation of 254,962 (270,189 on Sunday), returned a handsome profit last year of $1,700,000 after taxes. Assorted other properties owned by the controlling World Publishing Company, including Omaha television station KETV, produced an additional net profit of more than $300,000. The paper also has $8,000,000 cash on hand...
Missing out in Omaha was a keen disappointment to Publisher Newhouse. Having repeatedly demonstrated his ability to make losing papers pay, he now prefers the pleasure and challenge of making profitable papers pay more. But the defeat was perhaps endurable to a man who has other ways to spend his money,* and who in the course of collecting all or part of 19 dailies, has reached in vain for 25 more...