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...dreams are made of. He looks astonishingly like Eddie Cantor, the show's original star, but his manner is endearingly cuddlesome, rather like Joel Grey's. Choreographer Dan Siretta's dance numbers blaze across the stage like prairie fires, and the smashing chorus girls are a bouquet of red, red roses...
...some time ago--the sponsors frequently donate any profits to charity. Otherwise, the traditional trappings remain intact. Technically, a girl is "invited" to join that year's debutante "class." She must be clad completely in virginal white, and wear long white gloves. The club will supply her with a bouquet of roses and either she or her sponsors will provide at least two male escorts, dressed in tails, so she can dance away every minute of the ball if she so wishes. Photographers will be on hand, naturally, constantly taking candid and posed pictures, which they will gladly (and expensively...
...fathers arrive at the Youngbloods' Club, to hang up their debut gowns and to practice the Presentation in the ballroom. Picking their way among trails of plastic cedar, they listen as a sleepy-eyed Youngblood explains the procedure: the announcer will call out each girl's name; holding a bouquet of white roses, she will then ascend the platform, curtsey to the audience, then march down the hall and latch back onto her father's arm. They run through it once, simulating the rose bouquets with short ropes of the plastic cedar...
Kraft also made certain that the Presi dent would have a bouquet of good news for his hosts, ensuring a welcome in a state where his popularity has been falling fast. Carter announced that Ellington Air Force Base, which was scheduled to be closed, will be taken over instead by NASA -thereby saving about 1,000 jobs in the Houston area. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency will grant $6.4 million to expand a sewage treatment plant in Fort Worth...
Webb's domain extends underground to a huge wine cellar where some 95,000 bottles of student wine are aging gracefully. Like the beer, alas, all 95,000 bottles will go right down the drain once a panel of faculty and staff has rated their taste and bouquet. Along with such courses as "analysis of musts and wines" and "wine production," Davis offers a course on "sensory evaluation." But its strictly scientific approach sets it apart from the wine-appreciation courses that have germinated on some 300 U.S. campuses...