Word: subways
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Paprika & Snap. Ever since a new subway brought the big crowds to Coney Island in 1920, Nathan's has been a moneymaker; last year it grossed more than $3,000,000. Under prodding from his two sons, Nathan has reluctantly expanded into a Long Island restaurant and a catering service. He has also diversified his fare, now sells 4,500 lbs. of shrimp and 1,400 lbs. of frogs' legs each summer weekend. Although businessmen often offer to back him in a nationwide chain, Nathan always refuses. "I won't have my, name over the door...
...week King Bhumibol Adulyadej (pronounced Poom-i-pon A-dool-ya-date), who looks half his age, and his almond-eyed Queen Sirikit, who looks like mandolins sound, landed in Manhattan on their four-week swing through the U.S. And all the ticker-tape parade, the ride in the subway, the view from the Empire State Building faded into nothing when His Majesty went to dinner with the King of Swing Benny Goodman (and 94 others) at the suburban estate of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller...
...from the wings to the front of the stage and, flourishing her right arm, cries, "Hello, everybody." Back comes a chorus: "Hello, Minnie!" Thus do New Yorkers ritualistically hail the opening of the nation's oldest summer musicale-the 42-year-old Lewisohn Stadium Concerts. This week the subway commuters are thronging again to Lewisohn on Manhattan's upper West Side to hear the 43rd season ushered in by Conductor Pierre Monteux-and Mrs. Charles ("Minnie") Guggenheimer...
...maker of household cleaning products. He switched from beer to Babbitt 30 months ago. after squabbling forced him out of Pabst. "We have no pride." he announced. "We'll do anything that's legal to make a profit.'' He ran gimmicky promotions, even gave away subway tokens for Bab-O coupons. For a while Babbitt cleaned up. earned 42? per share in 1958 (v. $1.15 per share loss the year before), but last year it was back in the red. lost $1.33 per share on sales of $23 million. Lachner left Babbitt for a senior vice...
...free himself from his coffin, Rebeck explains to him what he knows of being dead. A ghost cannot touch or feel, grow tired or hungry. His human form and personality persist for a few weeks until he forgets the substance of his life-first, perhaps, the sound of a subway train, then his address, finally his name. The ghost, who was a professor named Michael Morgan until his wife (as he claims) poisoned him. vows noisily to cling to life. Then he realizes in terror that Rebeck is right-he has already forgotten Swinburne...