Word: showbiz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mighty Yankees, winners of 28 pennants and 20 World Series, were now in showbiz. The terms called for CBS to pay Yankee Owners Dan Topping and Del Webb $11.2 million cash for 80% of the franchise. Topping and Webb would retain 10% each until 1969, after which CBS had the option of buying them out. Until then, Topping would remain as president and operating boss, running the club as an "independent" subsidiary...
Flip, relieved, and sassy as ever after it was all over, randy Mandy Teufelsbraten was suddenly Samantha Showbiz. "I'm going to star in a production of Fanny Hill" she said. "Where else could they get someone so ready-made for the part?" She also disclosed her ultimate ambition: "I want to be another Lady Hamilton...
...Japan, the mysterious East went West as soon as the G.I.s arrived with jiipu (Jeeps) and gamu (chewing gum). Every modan garu (modern girl) is now avid for nairon sutokkingu (nylon stockings), the hittu parado (hit parade) and the popular magazines sekkuso sutori (sex stories). In showbiz, which is naturally fantazikku, starlets grapple with ojishon, kamera tesuto and doresu rihaasaru (audition, camera test, dress rehearsal). "Aimu sori," says the Japanese businessman as he breaks a kakuteiru (cocktail) date with his garufurendo (girl friend). He has time only for hassaru (hustle) and greater purodakuchibichi (productivity...
...Lord's Taverners are a group of British showbiz and sporting chaps who like to yuk it up in various sports that catch their fancy. At this year's outing the game was basketball-and against the court-clowning Harlem Globetrotters, no less. In the first half, the Globetrotters laughed their way to a 20-0 lead. But the script always calls for the Taverners to win. And so Prince Philip, 42, a Taverner reserve and part-time Gunga Din, donned white waiter's jacket and served the visitors champagne in silver cups. While the Globetrotters reeled...
Jennie joins Gypsy and Sophie as another of Broadway's disenchanted evenings devoted to the theme that showbiz is woebiz. The latest musical fictionally disinters the early life and hard times of the late Laurette Taylor on the tank-town circuit, and mopes over her domestic ordeals with an alcoholic, footloose, hot-air impresario of a husband. Amid the encircling gloom, only Mary Martin shines with an inextinguishable light...