Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM is Woody Allen's comedy, in which he stars as a woefully unconfident young man coached in the art of winning women by his fantasy hero, Humphrey Bogart. Though the play sometimes resembles an extended nightclub routine, it proves an amusing evening...
...reunite behind Negro Mayor Carl Stokes, who is up for re-election this fall. The mayoral campaign of Negro City Councilman Tom Bradley in Los Angeles has helped to rally that city's Negro community-and to raise black hopes for a more sympathetic city hall than Sam Yorty...
...Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty was right in claiming that he faced a "vicious racist campaign" in his drive for re-election against City Councilman Thomas Bradley. The proof, quipped San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Arthur Hoppe, was the fact that Bradley made "a blatant appeal for the Negro vote...
PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM. Woody Allen stars in his own play about a young man who is rejected by girls even in his fantasies. Though the play does not properly progress along with the evening, Allen's nimble jokes and kooky angle of vision are amusement enough...
...Angeles Times, arch critic of the mayor, has been painstakingly restrained in covering the campaign. Lately, however, its editorial writers and cartoonists have taken to roasting Yorty. Said one cartoon caption: "Winner of the first annual 'little old lady in tennis shoes award' is Mayor Sam Yorty for his re-election campaign...