Word: showbiz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hollywood these days, Club 55 is packing them in. Its parking lot is jammed with expensive and flashy cars. Inside, the crowd is sprinkled with cinema luminaries. But they are not waiting for the floor show. "Club 55" is showbiz lingo for the Hollywood unemployment office, and the attraction is $55 a week, taxfree. Any out-of-work Hollywood toiler, even if he earned a quarter of a million in his last picture and is scheduled to start on a new one next month, can collect his $55 a week during the interim...
Blueblood & Showbiz. It is the nature of this New Society that it should have no single queen. But a handful of women stand out, by virtue of their wealth, beauty and energy. They are not arbiters-they are pacesetters, and probably the best-known of them is Mrs. Winston Frederick Guest...
...knock some of the polish off our act. We have succeeded beyond all dreams." This was, in a sense, true; for Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev and Glenn Yarbrough, a folksinging trio called the Limeliters, have sung and quipped their way into an expanding fortune by establishing themselves as antonyms of showbiz gloss. Their concert tours (notably with Mort Sahl) have been unvaryingly successful; their most recent LP album has been on Billboard's bestseller chart for 15 weeks; they are worth $3,000 to $5,000 a week at the big blue grottoes like Basin Street East or Los Angeles...
...Gimmicks. The job of thinking up new delights for the 4,447 club members belongs to M/Sgt. Joseph Peter Klauzar, 42. A beefy (237 lbs.), Milwaukee-born former movie-house manager, Klauzar says: "When I was in showbiz the secret was constant gimmicks." Some gimmicks come easy, like giving free champagne and 16-ounce steak dinners to any G.I. on his birthday, and again when he completes his tour of duty and must say "sayonara" to kindly Kadena. But only a showbiz expert like Club Manager Klauzar would have the daring to go shopping for Stateside acts like...