Word: caging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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London had just got its first look at the New York City Ballet's celebrated production The Cage (TIME, June 25, 1951), in which the characters are costumed as giant insects-and the females first attract, then destroy the males. A few Londoners might find it puzzling, but not the editors of Picture Post. It was a wellknown U.S. phenomenon: "The women oi America ... eat their men until nothing is left but the inevitable gastric ulcer and a series of figures in blood red on a debilitated bank-statement form...
Fearless Pagan (MGM) is a circus lion that tangles with the U.S. Army. When Pagan's owner (Carleton Carpenter) is inducted, he cannot bear to part with his playful pet, and secretly puts him up in a cage on the Army post. This leads to complications involving a hard-boiled sergeant (Keenan Wynn), an apoplectic colonel (Wilton Graff) and a visiting movie star (Janet Leigh). All ends happily, with Janet and Carleton finding love, and Fagan finding a home in Hollywood. The fadeout shows Fagan, majestically poised on a diving board, leaping into a movietown swimming pool...
...King* succeeded his grandfather, King Sisowath II, in 1941. The Japanese army which occupied Pnompenh, kept its royal prisoner in his gilded cage; real power in Cambodia was exercised by a shifty-eyed demagogue and Japanese puppet named Son Ngoc Thanh. After V-J day, Puppet Son Ngoc Thanh was sent to jail in France; the King enrolled as a student officer (honorary rank: brigadier general) at the French army's school of cavalry and armor. His Majesty was a brilliant student. He returned to his people in 1947 an excellent horseman, an accomplished linguist and an enthusiastic driver...
...trip Atlantic crossing. A month before, Puffinus had been delivered to Rosario Mazzeo, staff manager of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and an amateur ornithologist, who was flying back to the U.S. from a European visit. Next day, at Boston's Logan International Airport, Mazzeo released Puffinus from his cage, and launched him out over the water for the return flight...
...before one of the biggest crowds in the city's history. When jeering Hearstmen claimed to have found a bullet hole in the bearskin, Knowles went back to Maine, and in front of witnesses clubbed to death a New Brunswick bear which had been brought down in a cage and released...