Word: sol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit, Boston and Chicago, and even in small towns; one of the best dancers, a Turkish girl named Semra, works at a roadhouse outside Bristol, Conn. The girls are kept booked and moving by several agents, notably voluble, black-bearded Murat Somay, a Manhattan Turk who is the Sol Hurok of the central abdomen. He can offer nine Turkish girls, plans to import at least 15 more. But a great many of the dancers are more or less native. Sometimes they get their initial experience in church haflis, conducted by Lebanese and Syrians in the U.S., where they dance with...
Chicago department stores were among the best off: 1960's total sales trail 1959 by only 1%, and, spared last week's snows, Chicago expects holiday buying to put merchants over the top for the year. Chicago's big Discounter Sol Polk expects Polk Brothers sales to be up 5% for the season and year, is doing a boom business in aluminum Christmas trees and-despite the lack of heavy snow-home snowplows. More than 1,000 plows priced from $129 to $169 have already been sold v. only 100 at this time last year. Polk thinks...
...fine Christmas present for Chicago Printed String Co. With a multicolored array of 185 different kinds of paper and some 3,000 varieties and sizes of ribbon, it claims to be the biggest in the fast-growing industry. "When you're sophisticated," explains Chicago Printed String President Sol Weiner, "you can wrap a gift in a newspaper. But if you haven't arrived yet, you keep up with the Joneses...
...latest Atlantic crossing has been the most spectacular to date, if not the biggest critical success. Before the troupe of 84 artists touched shore, with its 24 tons of scenery and costumes, ticket buyers had paid $500,000 for the troupe's month-long Manhattan stay. And Impresario Sol Hurok expects to gross close to $2,000,000 from the 25-city tour of the U.S. and Canada that will follow...
...SOL HURWITZ...