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...called 7½?. Within a week, the pair had bought theatrical rights. A stockbroker's son but less than rich, Prince spent six months giving living-room auditions for potential backers; 15 chorus girls from Wonderful Town put up their pin money. The upshot was something called The Pajama Game. Within 14 weeks all the investors had got their original money back -the first of many payments that would eventually amount to a 774% profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Princely Odds | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...teeny bikinis use fewer fibers than clothing did in the age of the coverup. Even European affluence can work against the industry. The spread of central heating encourages men to wear lightweight suits; as bedrooms become warmer, more people sleep in the raw, thus snipping away at the pajama market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXTILES: Hot Pants, Cold Comfort | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

...Like, we were making up these committees and this girl told us to put her in a group with all white people because she had been socializing with the blacks so much that she was afraid her friends would hate her. Another time, a friend of mine had this pajama party and she wanted to invite me, only she was afraid her parents wouldn't like it. Maybe it is going too fast for some people, especially parents, to accept it. The big problem is keeping the students together once they get to school. I think we could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The View from the Bus | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

...Ball Day, Helmet Day, T Shirt Day, Poster Day, Cushion Day, Sunglasses Day, Hot Pants Day, Wild West Day, Honor America Day, Latin America Day, A-Students Day, Plattsburgh Day. The day has also come when the baggy woolen uniforms of old are giving over to the pajama-like stretch-nylon duds worn by the Pittsburgh Pirates. In Oakland, Vida Blue & Co. turn out in uniforms of Kelly green and California gold with kangaroo-leather spikes dyed wedding-gown white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Bolt of Blue Lightning | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

...bearded like the pard, Prince is one of the theater's most formidable figures. At 26 he co-produced his first show, Pajama Game. Four years later he was enough of a Broadway inside joke to be lampooned as the hyperthyroid boy-wonder impresario of Say, Darling. The producer of such hits as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Fiddler on the Roof, and producer-director of Cabaret, Company and Follies, he is not treated like a figure of fun any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Once and Future Follies | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

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