THE BEAT GOES ON
NEW YORK-Two hundred of New York’s finest fourth estaters, from Screw to the New York Times to CREEM gathered in Feathers Restaurant in the fashionable Fifth Avenue Hotel awaiting word from the Rolling Stones about their summer tour. After 45 minutes of lunchnibbling and cocktailing, the press corps was ushered to a conference room, which had five empty chairs and five silent microphones.
THE BEAT GOSE ON
Stones Take To The Streets
NEW YORK-Two hundred of New York’s finest fourth estaters, from Screw to the New York Times to CREEM gathered in Feathers Restaurant in the fashionable Fifth Avenue Hotel awaiting word from the Rolling Stones about their summer tour. After 45 minutes of lunchnibbling and cocktailing, the press corps was ushered to a conference room, which had five empty chairs and five silent microphones.
Finally, the master of double talk, Prof. Irwin Corey, stepped up to a podium and began to lecture the collected scribes about Nixon, Wallace, and the Fred Clark Five, and the fact that “time and history will prove that the Rolling Stones were what they are;” Or something. The reporters giggled mirthfully, but then uneasily. What about the tour? While Corey was circumventing the issue with his verbal essay, an aide ran in with a megaphone.
“The Stones are in the street! The Stones are in the street!”