Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's biggest department store sirened: "Guess who's opening Macy's camp center this year? Captain Video himself." Exulted a Macy publicity man: "He has a fantastic pull with the kids. He can pack 2,000 in 400 square feet!" Nobody seems to care that Captain Video is no longer battling extraterrestrial badmen in outer galaxies. For though the show is dead, the character lives on, like a stubborn ghost, to haunt Actor Al Hodge, who portrayed the gallant captain for five years on the nation's TV screens. "I've made more personal...
...freshman lacrosse team will try to pull itself together after the 22 to 1 drubbing suffered at the hands of a polished Deerfield squad last Wednesday, when it engages Tabor Academy here at 3 p.m. The freshmen have had all sorts of woes, including a goalie who broke his ankle three days before the opener, star midfielder Dave Bohn injured early in the first half, and only a few days to practice before the game...
WHEN Moiseyev's Dance Company of the U.S.S.R. appeared in London in 1955, one critic was reminded of the Rockettes in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall. The parade-drilled precision is there, and so is the box-office pull. Next week the Moiseyev will give Americans their first close look at a major Soviet dance company. For a color preview of what Russian dance looks like when it is not poised on pointe, see Music, Soviet Pop Ballet. r RAGGED down by the auto indus-'-' try's slump, Detroit is the most recession-battered...
...Pull Up Some Wood. Amid his bouncing and shuffling teenagers, ex-Harmonica Player Clark is right at home. Personable and polite, he manages to sound as if he really means such glib disk-jockey patter as, "Let me pull up a hunk of wood and sit down with you." This air of sincerity is Clark's biggest attraction. Though ABC has mailed out 300.000 of his photographs since last summer, boyishly handsome Clark believes that most teen-agers see him less as a romantic idol than as the ideal big brother who understands their problems. On the problem...
...appears that the real issue of the Kohler strike in Sheboygan, Wis. [March 17] is finally coming to light. Does a man still possess the right to manage his own business, or must he and his management become hog-tied in the pull of the myriad strings that encumber thousands of businesses today and terminate in the executive offices of the labor trust? Unions are wielding much more power today than they should be wielding...