Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just before Christmas, the junta began buying third-class tickets for the January cruise of the Santa Maria, but after purchasing 30 tickets, the junta ran out of money. It was decided that the ticket holders would carry arms in their hand luggage, while the remaining 40 men in the plot would board ship pretending to be relatives and friends saying goodbye to passengers. Then they would remain as stowaways. With their eye on world-wide publicity, the junta urged a Caracas newspaper editor to send a reporter and photographer with them. Long accustomed to the pipe dreams of anti...
Next on the list was Frankie Sinatra's Hollywood-style Gala at the cavernous National Armory. Happily for the Democratic Party coffers, the tickets had been sold long before the snowstorm-and just as Sinatra had predicted, the show made a mint: nearly $1,400,000 (single seats, $100; boxes, $10,000). Unhappily for the showfolk, however, only two-thirds of the ticket-holders (some 6,000 people) turned up, and what with the traffic delays, the extravaganza got under way nearly two hours late. The biggest stars, of course, were the Kennedys themselves, and they had a fine...
...TIME, and the New York Times's Howard Taubman-who, says Merrick grinning at his own maliciousness, "needs vocational guidance." Two weeks ago, he tried to persuade the Times to print an ad pleading, "Bring back Brooks Atkinson." He also pipe-schemes to send critics only one ticket each, forcing them to leave their wives home, and to fill the seats next to them with well-proportioned starlets. But, he says, he will sit next to Taubman himself, helpfully holding a flashlight for note taking...
NIGHTS IN NEW YORK, proclaimed a Manhattan ticket broker in an ad last week, adding the suggestion that it would be a mighty nice thing if everybody did as Jack did. True enough, John Kennedy had dropped in for a performance of the musical comedy Do Re Mi-but that occasion was perhaps the least restless of his breakneck week. Winging about to Massachusetts, Manhattan, Washington and Florida, he examined reports from nine study groups, announced a score of appointments, went fishing, played golf, worked on his inaugural address-and came out of it all appearing eager for more...
...brother John D. Alsop, 45, president of Mutual Insurance Co. of Hartford, furthered his campaign last week for Connecticut's G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination in 1962. Speaking to Young Republicans, he took the trouble carefully to disassociate himself from Brother Joe's "enthusiasm for the Democratic ticket" and declared: "I am not a prophet of gloom and doom like my brother, Joseph-whose keeper...