Word: bee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brave to Be a Bee. The first three books in the Modern Masters Books for Children series are lively fantasies on a key theme in children's lives-the scariness of being alone, and the corollary wish to be somebody else. In The Big Green Book, Poet Robert Graves, using only 338 words, tells of little Jack, who lives with his unfriendly aunt and uncle because his parents are dead. One day Jack teaches his keepers a lesson. He finds a green book of magic spells, turns himself into a sly old man, and beats greedy aunt and uncle...
Poet Phyllis McGinley uses 364 words in The B Book to describe a small Brown Bee named Bumble, who tires of Being a mere Bee. To find something more beautiful he can Be, he Buzzes off "as loud as a Bold Brass Band," only to discover that everything Best in the world begins with a B-Butterflies, Blackbirds, Blue Balloons and the Bicycle of a Barefoot Boy named Billy. Moral: "It is a Brave thing to Be a Bee." Poet Louis Untermeyer uses a mere 179 words to embolden his readers in One and One and One. Plot...
Better than Death. Not surprisingly, the Big Five, though still continuing to invest in Hawaiian projects, are increasingly looking for new fields abroad. Besides last week's Italian venture, Castle & Cooke has over the past six years built up a thriving fish-cannery business in Oregon; its Bumble Bee canned fish last year accounted for 38% of its $4,600,000 earnings. C. Brewer & Co. has set up cane plantations and sugar refineries in Ecuador, Puerto Rico and Iran. American Factors is developing 1,400,000 acres for agriculture in Australia and is experimenting with raising pineapples in Honduras...
Washington's Episcopal-run Beauvoir El ementary School incorporates a dose of natural theology in its kindergarten prayer : Great grey elephant, little yellow bee; Tiny purple violet, big tall tree; Red and white sailboat on a blue...
...Vanyusha!", curly-haired Pianist Van Cliburn, 27. put on a triumphant two-night stand in Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he won the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition four years ago. He even got his first piano teacher into the act. Brought onstage by her son, Mrs. Rildia Bee Cliburn, 58, rippled off two warmly applauded pieces. The only clinker of the tour, in fact, was hit by Nikita Khrushchev. Ending a concert attended by the Soviet Premier, the Texas trebler dedicated Chopin's Fantasy in F Minor -'to Nikita Sergeevich." But Nikita, already hurrying backstage...