Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marriage Revealed. Harold George (Harry) Belafonte Jr., 30, Harlem-born calypso singer (The Banana Boat Song) and cinemactor (Carmen Jones); and Julie Robinson, 28, sometime dancer with Katherine Dunham's troupe; on March 8, a week after his divorce from Wife No. 1; in Tecate, Mexico...
Sacred Duty. Husky, blue-eyed Reporter Dubois, who wears unbreakable plastic spectacles as a precaution against manhandling, keeps his ears cocked for news leads by carrying a pocket radio wherever he goes. In nearly 30 years (ten for the Trib) on the banana-belt beat, he has developed an uncanny facility for guessing when and where a story will break. In Guatemala, where he reported as early as 1948 that the Arevalo regime was Communist-infiltrated, he arrived on the scene only hours before Castillo Armas' successful uprising broke out in 1954. New York-born Dubois speaks fluent Spanish...
...Charlie Shedd dropped to his knees during a morning meditation in Oklahoma and prayed: "Dear God, I've tried for 15 years to whip this problem of obesity . . . I've been on banana diets and eaten red meat. I've taken pills and bought reducing belts. I've read books and attended lectures, joined clubs and enrolled in courses. But I'm still fat ... I need help...
...offscreen all the time. In Robert Alan Aurthur's Tale. of the Comet, Studio One offered a case history of the TV comic as a tragic hero-a lonely figure tortured by self-defeating uncertainty amid the debris of his fallen ratings. Tim Tully is a onetime top banana who trampled 19 writers in three seasons in his frenzy to stop slipping. As the play opens, he is on the eve of an attempted comeback that seems doomed by his panicky fear of failure. In a series of skillfully managed flashbacks, Tully tells where the skids...
...seventh year of Indonesian independence drew to a close, the world's fourth largest democracy (pop. 80 million) was behaving something like a banana republic. "I am certain," said Indonesia's handsome President Soekarno, in a sharp departure from his customary exuberance, "that if this sickly situation persists, conditions will become ripe for a revolution...