Word: tickets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many as 200 alumni requests for tickets for Saturday's hockey game with Yale at New Haven may be unfilled because of a shortage of tickets at the Harvard Athletic Association. Frank Lunden, HAA ticket manager, stated yesterday he had only standing room tickets left...
...Klux Klan. But the Bees hum every bit as independently now as then. C.K. leaped party lines to endorse Warren Harding in 1920 and old Bob La Follette in 1924. Although Eleanor has been more consistently Democratic at the national level, she makes endorsements on the state ticket with an impartial disregard for party. Last fall she supported Democrat Pat Brown for Governor, but the rest of the Bees' state ballot went to Republicans. Bee readers expect thorough news coverage as a matter of course. The Sacramento Bee, biggest of the three, maintains a city-room staff...
...sudden dawns. Eager to please, she seems perpetually astonished at her power to give pleasure, as if the double-take she often uses were her own second nature. More fun to be with than any musicomedienne since Gertrude Lawrence, Gwen Verdon gives a theatergoer the rare sensation that his ticket has been underpriced...
Empty Bottles. In Havana, Castro's antivice campaign suspended the crooked government lottery (costing 4,000 ticket vendors their jobs). The government also closed a giant private numbers game, kept locks on the big gambling casinos, employing 10,000. Castro wiped out the Botellas,*the workless government jobs given minor flunkies by the Batista and previous regimes, whacking off 6,000 names at a saving of $15 million a year. The notoriously corrupt Havana newsmen, who for decades had been drawing up to $1,000,000 a month in government bribes, were rudely reduced to their salaries, some...
...matter of course, he made the Porcellian Club. Summers he traveled abroad, became expert at living like a first-class passenger on a third-class ticket. On one voyage, he ingratiated himself with Boxing Manager Joe ("I should have stood in bed") Jacobs before the ship left the dock, spent most of the trip playing poker on A-deck with Jacobs, Max Schmeling and Morton Downey. In his sophomore year Alec decided summer trips were too short, set out to get his degree in three years, didn't quite make it (he lacked one-half unit), but managed...