Word: ushers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company, still owns the seat on the New York Stock Exchange he acquired in 1936, also finds time for antique collecting and philanthropy. The man who actually runs MCA is President Lew Wasserman, 55, who was elevated to that job by Stein in 1946. A onetime theater usher, Wasserman moved MCA into TV production when the new medium began threatening the movie industry in the early 1950s, six years ago acquired Decca Records and its controlling interest in Universal Pictures. Under Wasserman, MCA has grown into a $224 million-a-year company, with earnings last year...
...wizened usher of many years put it after one of many precedents was shattered by the McCarthy rally, "I guess things are a bit different tonight...
Question: What big-league baseball team would hire a pitcher on the recommendation of an usher in its ballpark? Answer: the New York Mets. O.K. But when that same pitcher then goes out and wins three games in a row, striking out 24 batters, allowing only 15 hits, seven walks and one run in 27 innings - well, that's talent...
...just two pitches: a steaming fastball and a tantalizing slow curve. He never played high-school baseball, but pitched for Army and semi-pro teams while he was at Fort Bliss, Texas in 1964. "My catcher was a fellow named John Lucchese," recalls Jerry, "whose father was an usher at Shea Stadium. He told his dad he had a pretty good pitcher, and his dad told the Mets. They sent a guy out to scout me, and he offered me $1,600 to sign. I turned him down, so the next time he offered me $1,500. Every time...
Sullivan himself looked even nattier than he does each Sunday when, as St. Paul's head usher, he greets parishoners at the door. Silvery hair and glasses gleaming, he bounced from table to table greeting friends and allies. With a broad smile, he accepted flowers from a Democratic committee-woman, a scroll from the Michael A. Sullivan Memorial Associates (a continuing Sullivan campaign organization), a chair from the committee of friends giving the dinner, and a fire-helmet from the Cambridge Fire Department. "It's his smile; he'd win it on his smile alone," one woman said...