Word: tab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simply one more version of the venerable western about the mean old rancher out gunning for the squatters who are fencing off the open range. The six-shooters bang, the corpses hit the dust, the cowboys gallop hell for leather across the wide screen. In between the bloodlettings, Tab Hunter and Natalie Wood speak pidgin English to each other and sleep out on the prairie without a chaperon. The villains had several good chances to rub them out, but missed...
...convention hall itself, the party that has not infrequently blasted Big Business let out space for the "American Showcase" promotion display of big business. The 22 advertisers hoped their free-handout booths might be picked up by roving TV cameramen and flashed to 50 million viewers. Their tab ($10 a foot) was a far cry from the $14.2 million which five industrial giants are paying to the three major networks for TV and radio rights at the political shows...
...caterers, cooks, maids, helicopter pilots, chauffeurs for VIPs, commercial plane pilots and swimming-pool attendants (for NBC's plastic pool built especially to revive numbed delegates and newsmen). Betty Furness gets a whole new kitchen this year from Westinghouse (which is picking up a $5,000,000 tab for CBS for convention-through-election-night coverage), and a security guard to beat off the hungry. A recording company will offer free facilities to the 1,150 independent radio-TV newsmen for their small-town and foreign-based stations...
...racing career, a handicap of 132 Ibs. had been imposed on Nashua (previous high: 130 Ibs.). It was an honest weight, designed to make a contest out of last week's mile-and-three-sixteenths Brooklyn Handicap. But the doughty businessmen who had paid the $1,250,000 tab to buy Nashua decided that they did not like the weight, refused to enter the great bay colt in the race. The man who decided on the 132-lb. impost: Frank E. ("Jimmy") Kilroe, New York State's racing secretary and handicapper...
...star's very own voice. The first issue, with 300,000 copies already run off, will hit the newsstands early next month carrying recorded interviews with Tony Curtis and Jane Powell. For fans who can read, Hear also offers such written staples as "Who Put the Heat on Tab Hunter?" and "The Tragedy of Ava Gardner." The new magazine is the brain child of two Hollywood pressagents, gets its disks from Rainbo Records, whose president, Jack Brown, ran a World War II experimental project for the U.S. Navy to combat mosquito pollution by wooing the insects with recorded mosquito...