Word: broadways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both were hanging around the corner of 72nd and Broadway with a bunch of Puerto Rican toughs when the word was passed that white kids in the Clinton area had been beating up Puerto Ricans in the Clinton section (when in fact both whites and Puerto Ricans had been living together there in comparative peace). It was all the excuse they needed for a rumble. The victims in the Clinton playground knew neither their attackers nor the reasons for the attack...
...hour-and-a-quarter commercial. In fact, that is precisely what it is. But by the time it finishes its 48-day, eight-city, coast-to-coast tour next month, Buick '60, Buick's slick, sales-gimmick musical, will have run up a road record that few Broadway hits can approach: almost every performance a hot-ticket, S.R.O. sellout...
...industry-plus Coca-Cola, Westinghouse, General Electric, and dozens of other big firms that knew a good idea when they saw one. Seldom was the approach consistent: some companies concentrated on the soft sell, others pitched high and hard. Last season's Oldsmobile take-off on Broadway's Good News was the gentlest of kisses-and entertaining theater to boot. The songs were subtle, the plot made humorous sense, the verve of the Broadway original was still there. But this year's trend, possibly reflecting tougher competition, is more toward the hard sell. The 1960 Olds version...
...extras union. She finally landed a meaty role in Champion, with Kirk Douglas and Ruth Roman. The picture, says Lola, "set up Kirk and Ruth. Afterwards. I couldn't get a job. I went to New York to look for work on TV. Champion was playing on Broadway. There was my picture out front-all the reviews said 'Here's a new star'-and I couldn't even pay my hotel bill...
...Broadway...