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...Banana is an old burlesque term for the star of the show, the main act on the bill, the comedian with the baggiest pants. In Hy Kraft's story, the Top Banana has reached the highest point in the amusement industry. He has his own television show...
...rambunctious shenanigans of the Top Banana are mounted in a colorful setting of good tunes and bad jokes. With Johnny Mercer responsible for words and music of some 16 songs it is hard to see how so much of the music should be so good while the lyrics are so bad. Several of the tunes are excellent; one, a comedy bit called "A Word A Day," is as clever as anything that appeared on Broadway last season, but the general level is much lower...
...indoors behind boarded-up windows. Natives, expecting the worst, had battened down all hatches. Then "Easy" swerved sharply toward the east, its center missing Bermuda by 80 miles. At the same time, the force of its winds diminished. Bermuda got only a mild gale that blew down a few banana trees...
...over Florida one morning last week, a pair of F-86 Sabre jets headed out to sea, engines shrieking at full power. Their fleeing quarry was a huge red "bird" that had shot up 35,000 feet from the Air Force's Guided Missile Test Center at Banana River, leveled off, and sped out over the Atlantic. At top speed, the 670-m.p.h. Sabre jets could barely keep up with it. A few minutes later, the strange race was suddenly over. Radio signals bleeped out from Banana River, and the giant bird dived into the ocean...
...Matador? The Air Force admits that there are bigger & better guided missiles on the drawing boards, huge missiles with longer range and much greater speed. Much more accurate guidance systems are already in the works. But the improved models, says the Air Force, are still years away. At Banana River, enough specimens of the bright red Matador have been hurled into the skies to prove that no jet fighter flying today can catch and destroy it, and that it has enough range to reach any frontline target. The tests have shown that its electronic brain can guide...