Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into his hotel than the phone calls from bobby-soxers began. Some of them had come 60 miles just to get his autograph. Syria Mosque, where Mario was to sing, is the biggest hall in Pittsburgh (3,800 seats), but it had been sold out 48 hours after the ticket window opened. Edward Specter, manager of the symphony, threw precedent to the winds and sold tickets to Mario's warmup rehearsal the afternoon before. They went nearly as fast...
Last year, exhibitors cured the box-office anemia of 20th Century-Fox's A Ticket to Tomahawk by changing the title to The Sheriff's Daughter. Last week, despite good reviews, the same studio's U.S.S. Teakettle proved surprisingly anemic in its first bookings. The company decided to yank the movie out of release, give it the same kind of tonic. New title: You're In the Navy...
Only an exquisite talent explains a ticket on Quincy street. Of a line of forty cars, many of them sleek, foreign beauties, I acquired the only ticket. An adjacent vehicle had been parked so long the squirrels were storing acorns in its carburetor. Another rested with its front bumper peeling the bark from President Conant's prize hemlock tree. Who got the old tag? Don't ask ridiculous questions...
...being the better part of valor to get my car out of there, I held my breath, climbed in through a window and pressed the starter. It wouldn't start. Early the next morning the Cambridge rescue squad dug me out. There was a ticket on the other windshield wiper...
...trains can compete with buses, planes and autos on short runs by cutting fares and giving better service, the Great Northern Railway slashed fares on its Seattle-Vancouver run by 32% about a year ago. The new rate of 1.5? per passenger-mile ($5.25 for a round-trip ticket) was 10% lower than bus fare. After bus companies also cut fares, Great Northern rolled out two brand-new, speedy diesel "Internationals" which lowered the train trip within a hairbreadth of plane time (including travel to and from the airport). Last week, Great Northern reported "phenomenal increase" in business. Ticket sales...