Word: tonk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honky-Tonk Lunches. The Economist on last week's newsstands had 136 pages, was the fattest issue in the history of the publication (Economist staffers steadfastly decline to call it a magazine, always refer to it as "the paper"). The newsstand sales put U.S. circulation up to 7,500 and total circulation to 60,500, both Economist records. But however encouraging such figures may be to Economist editors, they fully realize that what matters most about the Economist is not how many readers it has, but who its readers are. And the sort of people who read the Economist...
...quoted more often in the press than any other foreign publication. It is considered required reading on Wall Street and Capitol Hill; the Central Intelligence Agency alone gets 200 air-expressed copies weekly. Few statesmen pass up Economist invitations to lunch in the Honky-Tonk, the staff's irreverent name for the restaurant in the basement of the Economist's London headquarters on Ryder Street...
...over and the world peaceful but so boring that the trainer decided to release the flea again and start the cycle all over. Although most critics found the atonal opera "a joke in bad taste," some had kind words for its opening striptease scene executed to a honky-tonk blues refrain that seemed to summarize the composer's sense of futility...
Time, Gentlemen. In Columbus, Ohio, burglars who had broken into the Honky Tonk Grill told a man trying to get in, "Sorry, buddy, we're closed," learned when the police picked them up that they had given the brushoff to the owner...
...Adventures of McGraw (Tues. 9 p.m., E.D.T.. NBC). To the honky-tonk strains of One for My Baby, McGraw (he has no first name, is played by Frank Lovejoy) loose-jointedly saunters into view, occasionally raking his sinewy fingers through his crew-cut hair. Badmen usually underestimate McGraw, but all women smile seductively at him. He hits it off fine with most cops, who overlook his occasional infractions in the line of duty. The most human of all TV's hireling snoopers, McGraw has sometimes mistaken a crook's pocketed finger for a gun, has dived prudently...