Word: walkerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another musical, Jimmy, profiles the last really Fun Mayor of Fun City, Jimmy Walker. Broadway's unceasing penchant for self-celebration will provide a whole clutch of musicals, among them Hocus-Pocus (Harry Houdini) and W.C. (Fields could have thought of a better title). The Girls Upstairs is a tale of Ziegfeld Girls who have passed their prime, and Shubert Alley is about the three brothers who gave Broadway some of its more pungent history...
MOVIE OF THE WEEK (ABC, 8:30-10 p.m.). "Seven in Darkness" include Milton Berle, Dina Merrill, Tippy Walker and Barry Nelson as blind survivors of a plane wreck, in remote mountains. Premiere of a series of movies produced...
...FOLK GOSPEL MUSIC FESTIVAL (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A contemporary gospel music special featuring Mahalia Jackson, the Staple Singers, Clara Walker and the Gospel Redeemers...
...made him player-manager. On and off the field, his style perfectly suited the abrasive, autocratic temper of the times. The lions of Broadway and Tammany Hall loved the feisty little manager. He drank at The Lambs club with George M. Cohan, and eventually became one of Mayor Jimmy Walker's favorite cronies...
GORDON N. WALKER Morristown...