Word: sellout
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...week's end, when the trial recessed, it had become virtually the only topic of conversation in Britain. A show of his portraits, including those of such celebrities as Sophia Loren, Prince Philip, Mandy, and Canada's ex-Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, was a near sellout, raised an astonishing $25,000 for Ward's defense. This week a sober-looking jury of eleven mostly middle-aged men and one woman will decide whether talented Stephen Ward is a pimp and a procurer or just a jolly bohemian...
...likes of Stephen Spender, Robert Heilbroner and Truman Capote, and carrying 18 pages of ads in its 48 tabloid-sized pages, were on sale at newsstands and bookstores across Manhattan. This time the Review made no secret of when it would turn up next. Emboldened by a near sellout of their first, 100,000-copy issue, Editors Barbara Epstein and Bob Silvers declared that "there may be sufficient demand in America to support a literary review of this sort." They announced that come September, they will begin publishing twice a month. They may even start paying their writers...
Today. Pelé's mere presence in the Santos line-up ensures a sellout crowd anywhere in the soccer world. His income from salary, bonuses and extras will come to about $40,000 this year. He can have more, any time he wants it. Last year Milan's Internazionale offered him a $60,000 bonus to sign a contract, and another Italian team. Juventus. was willing to go as high as $300,000. Spain's Real Madrid told Pelé to set his own price. Pelé turned them all down...
They also got support from Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith, a Virginia conservative who remained rankled by what he considered a Georgia sellout on the Rules vote. Smith decided that even a liberal might be preferable to an apostate, and he led 25 or 30 Southern conservatives into the liberals' camp. In the Democratic caucus, the vote for the available Ways and Means place was 161 for Pat Jennings, the only liberal member of Virginia's House delegation, to 126 for Landrum. Since both Jennings and Tennessee's Bass are loyal Administration supporters, their election certainly strengthened...
Whatever the cause, Oliver! promises to be one of those theatrical phenomena that defy good taste and the saws of critics with equal impunity. Apart from being a cross-country box-office sellout, it is already accentuating a curious trend in haircuts. Hip barbers are clipping the tykes of unwary parents in an Oliver-styled fashion known as the "British boy cut" (low bangs in front, thick mop in back), and many a little boy will soon look rather like a wistful needle in a haystack...