Word: bibi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flower-bedecked throne he announced that he would not become a U.S. citizen, that the return match with Floyd Patterson would probably be in Los Angeles. Later, with ballpoint pen in hand, he autographed the prettily preened neck of Movie Star Bibi Anderson, added: "It will last longer if you varnish it." Everyone howled...
...Boys from Syracuse (Portia Nelson, Jack Cassidy, Bibi Osterwald, conducted by Lehman Engel; Columbia LP). The 1938 Rodgers & Hart musical (based on A Comedy of Errors) in a dazzling record reduction. Such hits as Falling in Love with Love and This Can't Be Love are treated overtenderly, but the album is worth having, if only for the late Lorenz Hart's remarkable rhymes...
...Last week Tara Singh and Bibi journeyed to a town near the Pakistan border to meet him. Bibi was afraid, for despite her careful Moslem upbringing, she had absorbed some Sikh prejudices. "If I go to a Moslem household," she cried, "I shall have to bear the offensive smell of tobacco and eat beef!" But Tara Singh loaded her with presents and new clothes and reminded her of her duty...
...arrived, he embraced Tara Singh with tears in his eyes. Then they went to a restaurant to celebrate the occasion with a cup of tea. At the sight of a Sikh and a Moslem sitting down together, a murmuring crowd began to gather outside, and the story of Bibi and her foster father spread quickly among the Hindu villagers...
Later, when Bibi and her father had bounced safely off to Pakistan in a jeep and Tara Singh had boarded a train to return home to Sunam, everyone was still talking and arguing over this amazing happening. On the train, one man, who did not recognize Tara Singh, vented his feelings. "A Sikh who repays the wickedness of the Moslems by a generous action like that," he exclaimed, "deserves to be shot." But Sardar Tara Singh only smiled quietly...