Word: quickstep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blast; mercifully, only 35,000 of them could make it. Still, it was quite a party on Central Park Mall when New York City turned out for the season's first Guggenheim Memorial Concert. The band tooted out such swinging numbers as The New York Light Guards Quickstep and The New York Hippodrome March for the turn-of-the-century stomp. Then, too, there was a catchy little act by a couple of beblaz-ered vaudevillians, Mayor John Lindsay and Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving, who went around tipping boater and bowler at each other. Hotcha...
...Journal's quickstep march to disaster provided one more lesson in the brutal economics of daily journalism. Before starting the new paper. Publisher (and onetime Arizona attorney general) Robert Morrison, 53, raised $1,500,000. But merely getting born took all but $100,000 of that. By the time the paper produced its first issue-which came out eight hours late-the Journal was already suffering from malnutrition. Eugene Pulliam, whose two conservative dailies blanket Phoenix,* contemptuously ignored the newcomer. And, after a while, so did many of the people who had shared Bob Morrison's conviction that...