Word: ticketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overtime Match. In Montreal, Que., Georgette Demers was fined $25 for beating up a policeman who was putting a parking ticket...
...Texas' Lyndon Johnson. But as candidates and their hardheaded professionals get down to counting delegates, they will find the Governors in command of most delegations fully aware of their separate and collective bargaining power and-in some cases -firm believers that a Governor belongs somewhere on the ticket...
...vice-presidential nomination but listens to speculation about a presidential lightning bolt. And like most of the other seven Catholic Democratic Governors, Pat Brown has no interest at all in advancing the candidacy of front-running Catholic Jack Kennedy, since obviously two Catholics do not make a winning ticket...
Early one Saturday last May, a thin, grim line started forming outside the Royal Opera House at London's Covent Garden. All through the long Whitsun weekend it sweltered and swelled, until, the following Tuesday, tickets went on sale for the first London performance of Cherubini's Medea in 89 years. Within three hours every seat in the house was sold out. Last week the lucky ticket holders finally got a look at what they had battled so tenaciously to see: Maria Meneghini Callas in the role of Euripides' savagely tormented heroine...
...month later, Ethel had her answer. Her rich, throaty contralto rolled over her fears, and Jinks became a hit. Long lines of ticket buyers curled across Herald Square from the box office of the Garrick Theater on Manhattan's 35th Street. Her name went up in lights on the marquee, and for more than half a century the glow remained. Styles changed: Broadway brightened (and cheapened) from gaslight into the Great White Way, and moved north to Times Square; nickelodeons grew into movie houses; the talkies came, driving the "legit" theater into retreat, and the ghostly black-and-white...