Word: catnip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Characters. Paar's plans consisted mostly of organized planlessness. During the past year Jack has tantalized a tame lion with doses of catnip, tangled with a pickpocket named Dominique, who lifted his wallet, belt and wrist watch, sweated through a few falls with a professional wrestler named Killer Kowalski. He has worn funny hats, taken off his pants, climbed up the studio walls. But always, the high points were provided by the talkers - guided or goaded, driven or drawn out by Jack...
Stone is a key witness in the imaginary affaire Dujardin, which has for post-World War II France all the moral and political catnip of a Dreyfus case. Dujardin, a member of the French underground, is in jail, has been marked for death as one of the guilty who directed the massacre of a whole French village called Montpelle (which calls to mind France's nonfictional Oradour-Sur-Glane). To the French Left he becomes a martyr, and "Liberez Dujardin" is scrawled on every wall in Paris. Only the evidence of Stone, who is now symbolical of the dead...
...Opening in a new play is just like catnip to a kitten!" says Actress Helen Hayes, in her first week as the rollicking, white-haired, fuzzy-headed Duchess in Time Remembered. Shy, tiny (5 ft.) Actress Hayes, regarded by many as the First Lady of the American theater, is delighted to be back on Broadway in her first original role since Mrs. McThing in 1952,. "I couldn't bear to think of anyone else playing that delicious Duchess," she explains. "I guess I was just waiting for the right play to come along...
...Chelsea. On the way, the Public Gardens come first, and are somewhat bleak now and lack the swan boats, but there is, still, a picture-taking man with his venerable camera. Higher up, on Tremont Street and nearer the State Capitol, an old man used to sell catnip. He kept his stand next to the Old Granary Burial Ground for over forty years until he retired just after the war. During the war, the dome on the State Capitol on Beacon Hill was painted grey, but now it is gold again...
...Charlestown and to Chelsea. On the way, the Public Gardens come first, and are somewhat bleak now and lack swan boats, but there is, still, a picture-taking man with his venerable camera. Higher up, on Tremont Street and nearer the state Capitol, an old man used to sell catnip. He kept his stand next to the Old Granary Burial Ground for over forty years until he retired just after the war. During the war the dome of the state Capitol on Beacon Hill was painted grey, but now it is gold again...