Word: canings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farms around Benares, India's holy city, are nourished by the sacred Ganges. The soil is black and crumbly, as rich-looking as chocolate. Cane grows as high as a man's head. Water is knee-deep in the lush paddies. It is a happy land, where plump little children stand beside the road, laugh and wave to passing automobiles, where slender farm girls, with water jars balanced gracefully on their heads, smile shyly before covering their faces with colorful head cloths. Old men sit in the doorways of mud huts, contentedly puffing on long-stemmed hookahs...
...spite of his pain ("Oh, I can't stand it! I must die! I must go!" he once cried), the ex-President seemed to have one final ambition at McGregor: to recoup his family's fortune by completing his memoirs.* On sunny days, supported by his black cane ("I scarcely ever use my cane in going about my room," says one note. "Often when I go out, I have to look about for it to find it"), he would struggle out of the house to sit for hours on his porch, poring over his work. Though weak...
...Long Way. Two attendants took him under the armpits and hoisted him down the steps. In his left hand he gripped a cane. His right arm was hidden inside a dangling coat sleeve. Thorez looked worried as he noticed the 150 yards he had to go to his car. Flanked by his wife and the saturnine Casanova, he walked with difficulty, taking small steps, with a pronounced limp. It took him ten minutes to cover the distance. Outside the station he struck a smiling pose for photographers, carefully hiding his right arm. Someone said: "How do you feel?" Said Thorez...
Certainly, Chevalier has lost none of the suavity that made him the cane-twirling darling of Continental and American revues. In fact, his charm makes it hard to understand how the young girl could prefer the bumbling young actor. While Francois Perreier, who plays Jacques, is properly eager, mooning and puffing in approximation of romantic ardor, and Marcelle Derrien is a pert and lovely Madeleine, both pale in the light of Chevalier's dazzling smile...
...Lewis might have reached the top as a straight musician without his top hat, cane and patter. His free-riding clarinet was imitated by the young Benny Goodman, and his band gave asylum to such latter-day jazz greats as Muggsy Spanier, Jimmy Dorsey and George Brunis. His recording of St. Louis Blues sent hepcats of the '20s as far out of this world as people got in those days. But Ted was too much of a showman to stick to music. Today it is not the Lewis clarinet that people come for, but the sleepy smile...