Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deployed on a pre-Broadway crosscountry tour that has already nearly recouped production costs. Auntie Mame is being put to music as My Best Girl by Jerry (Hello, Dolly!) Herman; and Anya (nee Anastasia) is given voice with a score gleaned from themes by Rachmaninoff. Then there is a pair of transubstantiated movies: Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria will become Bob Fosse's Sweet Charity with Gwen Verdon. The Blue Angel, as Sugar City, relocates to New Orleans, with Walter Slezak and Lilo. The composer: Duke Ellington...
Edward Albee will be making his fourth annual on-Broadway appearance with Malcolm, a dramatization of Novelist James Purdy's black comedy tracking a 15-year-old's picaresque trail to destruction. Tennessee Williams will be represented by Slapstick Tragedy, which he calls "a pair of fantastic allegories on the tragicomic subject of human existence on this risky planet...
...must be released on bail, unless the evidence against them is so "nearly conclusive" that conviction is virtually assured. At a habeas corpus hearing, the prosecution produced a stewardess who identified Mel as having been a passenger on the plane from Houston, and an ex-convict who said the pair had offered him $10,000 to murder Mossier. But to Circuit Court Judge Harvie DuVal, the case was not yet airtight: "The testimony I have heard and read does not meet the evidence requirements." Judge DuVal duly freed the defendants on $50,000 bonds. While Mel discreetly headed for Atlanta...
...proprietor in Manhattan sells Louis XV vases for $1,000, crystal chandeliers for $300 a pair and bronze sculptures for $1,200 apiece; another offers homemade relishes and jams, chi na eggs, wooden jigsaw puzzles and stuffed animals. Both are florists. The wide variety of their merchandise illustrates how the nation's 22,000 retail florists are branching out. Last week the 11,600-member Florist Telegraph Delivery Association (which is changing its name to Florist Transworld Delivery to give itself a more international image) voted at its convention in San Francisco to permit its members to sell...
...dryers on floor stands, Teflon is being used to coat just about everything from irons to coffee pots, and the long-established blender market has come alive again with the introduction of improved models by Waring, Oster, Ronson and Dormeyer. Miniature washers and dryers that take one shirt or pair of socks at a time, have also appeared; Ronson now makes 25% of its sales in labor-saving devices. As competition in the small-appliance market increases, prices are coming down. General Electric recently reduced the price of its most popular electric knife from $22.95 to $18.98 (discount houses have...