Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. This year James has broken every record on every job he has played. Examples: for San Francisco's Golden Gate Theater he grossed $41,000 in seven days (previous record was Sammy Kaye's $35,000); at Manhattan's Astor Roof he grossed 8,500 covers in one week, topping Tommy Dorsey's record by 600. The newest Jamesiana, a sentimental arrangement of the old / Cried for You, is a candidate for the best-seller lists...
...such minor equipment as bats and basealls are virtually forgotten, is one of the high spots of every year for the organizations. In times past the 'Poonsters have walked off with honored CRIMSON possessions, but probably the most notorious snatch occurred in 1941 when the "Crime" editors scaled the roof of the Lampoon building on Mount Auburn Street and sawed off the Ibis, the symbolic bird. It was returned several weeks later...
...Stork Club a hip-provoking rumba band helps lure 40% more business than last year. Nightclub-pocked 52nd Street jumps and jives until 4 almost every morning; famed Leon & Eddie's packs them in with come-ons like pretty chorines to dance with tired businessmen. The Hotel Astor roof has capacity crowds nightly and bar business is 65% above last year. In Broadway's flashy, pink-satined Latin Quarter, soldiers and visiting firemen ogle a sexy two-hour show, fork over a smacking $25,000 weekly for the look...
Customers' checks average 35? (profit ½? a meal). They join the waiters in community singing. During religious songs, blue neon crosses light up the walls. In the Pacific Seas' "rain hut" every 20 minutes diners hear the sound of rain on the roof. At Brookdale visitors hear a recording of Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life and a two-minute sermon on Story of the Redwoods in a tiny chapel...
Bennett was placed in nomination: friendly delegates raised the roof with cheers, paraded for ten minutes through the narrow aisles...