Word: tipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just inside the spotlighted, canopied double glass doors is an eloquent word of warning: "Occupancy by more than 1,700 people dangerous and unlawful." The only nightclub in the world roomy enough to fly such a banner is improbably located on the tawrdry, whiffy flatlands near the southernmost tip of Brooklyn. The Town & Country, sometimes referred to as "Miami Beach in Flatbush," is a 45-minute drive and a $6 cab fare from Manhattan, but it fields a line of first-class talent most clubs would hock their silverware to buy. Its big neon bill of fare regularly blazons such...
Third. Take a tip from supermarkets. "Mark your aisles and your departments clearly with names the consumer understands. Then he won't have to sidle up to the man with the gun and whisper: 'Where can I get a loan?' Display what you have to sell, not money itself, but what money can buy. I doubt that even the most enticing display of $100 bills would persuade one man or woman to rent your money, but a display of air conditioners might...
...FILTER-TIP SALES, up 42% last year, puffed cigarette industry to record 409.4 billion smokes in 1957 v. previous 394.1 billion high in 1952. Filters grabbed 40% of total market, should reach 45% this year...
...always been highly regarded and widely practiced. For centuries, native praus flashed out from inlets and rivers to send kris-waving pirates swarming aboard European merchantmen richly laden with the wealth of the Spice Islands. The conquering Dutch were never able to thoroughly subdue Atjeh, on the northern tip of Sumatra. In 1906 a Balinese rajah, his sons, wives, concubines and soldiers committed mass suicide rather than surrender...
...that Cornell has more than its share of super-stars. It hasn't. The Big Red is favored to take four events, the same number as the varsity, but it is the all-important lesser places which will tip the meet in Cornell's favor...