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Broadway theater owners, meanwhile, were solacing themselves with good news from Washington. Starting Jan. 1, 1966, the 10% tax on tickets (in effect since 1917) will be repealed. Further, prices will shed their straitjackets. Hit shows will be able to charge what the freight will bear, perhaps as much as $25 a ticket. Flexibility will also mean that for lagging shows, box-office prices can be dropped to rock bottom overnight...
...went to Harold Laski's soirees on Tuesday night and Lady Astor's on the weekend. It was a balanced ticket." See THE NATION, The Use of Power With a Passion for Peace...
...became an officer, was assigned as a military aide to Admiral Alan G. Kirk. In wartime London, Bill Bundy recalls, Mac knew all the right people. "He went to Harold Laski's soirees on Tuesday night and Lady Astor's on the weekend. It was a balanced ticket...
Many retailers promised to rebate the tax on big-ticket items that had been purchased within the last month -provided buyers kept their receipts. Some, however, planned no reductions at all for phonograph records, small appliances and other loss leaders that are already heavily discounted; and David Yunich, president of Macy's New York division, complained: "There are some manufacturers who are resisting passing on the excise-tax reductions to customers by contemplating raising their base prices." Whether they pass it on or not, businessmen were plainly pleased by the excise cut, figured that it would make more than...
There he stood, that moaning old Yank, Elvis Presley, 30, firmly in the No. 1 spot on London's Hit Parade with what the trade calls a ."religiose"-Crying in the Chapel. And were the Beatles crying any more than usual down there in 24th place with Ticket to Ride? No, no, no. For when the Queen's annual birthday honors list came out, there they were, among the 1,800 names: Ringo Starr, 24, John Lennon, 24, Paul McCartney, 22, and George Harrison, 22, all appointed members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, thus...