Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sidney Janis Gallery New York City...
...Washington Senators win a close one (7-6) from the Boston Red Sox. got two autographed baseballs (one after a homer) from Senator Slugger Harmon Killebrew to give to grandson David. Ike laughed at a photographer's suggestion that Press Secretary James Hagerty, a dedicated New York Yankee fan, ought to replace cellar-dwelling Yankee Manager Casey Stengel. Quipped the President: "He couldn't do much worse...
...press on the eve of his 80th birthday, Journalist Beaverbrook parried questions with professional skill, along the way paid bittersweet tribute to a transatlantic competitor. Asked by a newshound what he regards as his greatest achievement in publishing, His Lordship shot back: "Reading the 145 pages of the New York Times Sunday edition in one sitting, through and through, every word...
...taxi rides. Columbia made tapes of D.J.s interviewing celebrities and gave them to the jocks to play on the air at home. There were free bus trips, promised airborne junkets to Mexico. Squads of local beach girls in Bikinis were relieved by company-strength detachments flown in from New York. A Texas firm gave away eight pairs of sunglasses with built-in transistor radios (proud flacks claimed they cost $5,000 apiece...
...promoters had other things to say when the jocks were out of range. "Some of these guys actually believe they're God," said one. Explained another: "Suppose a D.J. calls New York and says he wants to see the city. What are you going to tell him-to pay for it himself? You pay for his hotel and his meals and his liquor, and if he wants a girl you pay for that. An average New York weekend will cost the record company $500 to $1,000, and if you don't pay it there's another...