Is Everybody Happy?; Handicap Parking; Price Gouging; Barnesdance

[Bapopik at AOL.COM]

IS EVERYBODY HAPPY?

   Fred Shapiro might have this as the catchphrase of Ted Lewis and his band (1925-1938).
   From BOHEMIAN SAN FRANCISCO: ITS RESTAURANTS AND THEIR MOST FAMOUS RECIPES--THE ELEGANT ART OF DINING (Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco, 1914) by Clarence G. Edwords:

Pg. 23:  "Is everybody happy?"

Pg. 24:  ...the real sentiment was expressed by the young girl when she sang out "Is everybody happy?"

--------------------------------------------------------
HANDICAP PARKING

   "Handicap parking" is not in the OED.
   From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 11 July 1964, pg. 8, col. 6:

_Space Reserved for Handicapped_
_At Three Parking Lots at the Fair_
By Ralph Chapman
   Space in three of the Fair parking lots is now being reserved for the cars of physically handicapped drivers and those carrying passengers with similar disabilities.  Special arrangements are being made also for charter buses carrying the handicapped.

--------------------------------------------------------
PRICE GOUGING

   Actually, just a regular "gouging," but other newspapers might have used the full term on this date.
   From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 7 May 1964, pg. 6, col. 4:

_Fair Maps Legal Action_
_On "Gouging" Restaurants_
By Fred Ferretti
WORLD'S FAIR.
   The World's Fair is considering the possibility of taking legal punitive action against certain restaurants and lounges on the Fair grounds that have been allegedly "gouging" visitors, it was learned yesterday.

--------------------------------------------------------
BARNESDANCE

   From the NEW YORK MIRROR, "Traffic-Light Tricks Up Barnes' Sleeve," 13 March 1962 (where the Mets were neither Amazin' nor Miracle--ed.), pg. 3, col. 3:

   Barnes announced that another "Barnesdance" signal system will go into effect...

   From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 24 August 1964, pg. 23, col. 5:

_Barnes Taken Ill at Home;_
_"A Mild Cardiac Spasm"_
   Traffic Commissioner Henry A. Barnes suffered "a very mild cardiac spasm"...
   Mr. Barnes, who was appointed (Col. 6--ed.) to his $27,500-a-year job by Mayor Wagner on Jan. 15, 1962, has revolutionized the Traffic Department with his blunt outspoken methods and, in the opinion of some experts, has made it into the country's finest.
   His "Barnes Dance," wherein lights were synchronized so as to halt all traffic at an intersection while pedestrians crossed in every direction, was one of his most publicized feats.

(Barnes came from the Denver system and supposedly gave us what OED would later record as the "Denver boot" on illegally parked cars.  I haven't seen that term through 1964--ed.)

--------------------------------------------------------
BUSINESS MAN'S BREAKFAST

   From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE. 17 May 1964, section 3, pg. 8, col. 1:

_Bacon&Eggs_
_And Business_
_On the Menu_

(Unlike the "power lunch" later on, this idea didn't take off--ed.)

--------------------------------------------------------
GLOBAL/WORDLY INVESTOR & BOOM-BOOM

   The NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 12 January 1964, part II, pg. 1, col. 2, has a large picture of a globe iwth the title "The Wordly Investor."  From col. 2:

   In short, he was a composite, the very picture of the not-too-proper global investor.  The trouble is that he's now something of a myth.  His image is fading, especially in boom-boom '64.

--------------------------------------------------------
HOT MONEY ("LAUNDERING")

   From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 27 January 1964, pg. 17, col. 1:

_Crime's "Hot Money"--A Report_
By Newton H. Fulbright
   The problem of "hot money"--the flow of cash from the coffers of organized crime into legitimate business and labor unions and the fraud, deception and economic ruin that follows in its wake--occupied a top spot in United States Attorney Robert M. Morganthau's office last year.

("Laundering" of the "hot money" was not used in the story, but it's very close...Robert Morganthau is still in that office, by the way--ed.)

--------------------------------------------------------
HOT DOGS (continued)

   Somewhat interesting is the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 18 September 1964, pg. 32, col. 2:

_No Baloney--Hot Dogs Cue Election_
(...)  The message he brought was this: In the last 10 Presidential elections it was possible to predict the outcome by the number of frankfurters consumed in the two months before Election Day.
   We repeat.  He told it with a straight face.  (Don't you wish you had a job like this where you'd be exposed to such fascinating information day in and out.)
   If the number of franks eaten rises noticeably it means a Democratic victory, he said.  If not, it's great news for the Republicans.  "I can tell you how accurate this is," he said.  "In the 1960 election we made no prediction because no clear indication was given by the franks.  You remember how close the race was that year."
   The visitor, as might be expected, was not on hand as a disinterested missionary for the ubiquitous hot dog.  He had recently re-established a relationship with Hebrew National Kosher Foods, Inc., where he had achieved immortality previously by publicizing such touching items as heart-shaped salamis on Valentine's Day.

(Could this mean that Democrats cut the mustard?--ed.)