Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...together these days, there is talk about organization of the 83rd Congress. A question that often comes up: what to do about Oregon's Wayne Morse, the Fair Dealer with the Republican label who read himself out of the G.O.P. this year and supported the Democratic national ticket. Last week the G.O.P. Senators had not found the answer, but they were showing unusual interest in a Republican historical note. When the 69th Congress convened in March 1925, the Republicans in the Senate refused to give four of their colleagues any new committee assignments and busted them to the bottom...
...movie managers played it big. In Omaha, red carpeting was stretched from curb to lobby; in Asbury Park, N. J., advertisements invited people to come in evening clothes (but very few did); in Richmond, Va., the popcorn machine was hauled out of sight for the night. Ticket prices were scaled as high as $7.20. Finally, when all was in readiness, some 60,000 customers marched into theaters in 27 cities to see a live performance of Carmen, coming from the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan over closed-circuit television...
Discovery of the theft came after a cross-check of ticket stubs against total income revealed that the organization received no money for $180 worth of tickets...
...both nights, it was noticed that ticket receipt totals were more than net income. Suspicious, H.L.U. members carefully cross-checked receipts and ticket stubs at the showing of "Stairway to Heaven." There was no loss...
...least one of Tuesday's ticket-sellers, however, did not work at the "Stairway" performance...