Word: sell-out
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...made lesser musicians grow rich around him, he now reaps the rewards of his conviction gladly but without surprise. He has a dignified, three-album-a-year contract with Columbia Records, his quartet could get bookings 52 weeks a year, and his present tour of Europe is almost a sell-out in 20 cities from Helsinki to Milan. In his first fat year, Monk earned $50,000, and on checks as well as autograph books he signs his grand name grandly, like a man drawing a bird...
...thousands closed in as if to devour them. They pressed in and literally over the Beatles' limousines, standing on hoods and tops, screaming. On a brief trip to Washington, hundreds of grotesquely clawing hands reached toward them through the massive iron bars that partition Union Station. At a sell-out concert in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, the Beatles stood on the stage in a hail of their beloved jelly beans, while flashguns intermittently lighted the great interior like night artillery, and they boomed their electrified rock 'n' roll into the wildly screaming darkness...
Saturday's Dartmouth game may attract Harvard Stadium's first sell-out crowd for a non-Yale game since...
Cassius Marcellus Clay has amply demonstrated the biggest mouth in boxing. Tonight before a sell-out crowd of 13,000 in Madison Square Garden, Clay is a 17-5 favorite to back up his boasts with a victory over highly ranked heavyweight Doug Jones...
Mississippi Gov. Ross E. Barnett slipped quietly into Boston late last night for his speech this evening at the Harvard Law School Forum. Barnett will speak to a sell-out crowd in Sanders Theatre (capacity...