Word: chaperoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coveys of girls pass outside the pool room window. A few of the girls are going to a local dance. Their mothers will call the chaperon to make sure they have arrived, call again at 10 o'clock to make sure that the dance has concluded and the girls are coming home. Other groups will walk together for hours, transistor radios swinging close to the sidewalk. They go by younger friends with a nod and older, rat, boys with a toss of the head. Perhaps they will meet next week at a dance. No one but a colleege boy does...
...past two weeks, leading an entourage that included her aunt as a chaperon, her accompanists, a reporter for France Soir and a camera crew filming her every movement for a French TV documentary, Mireille hopscotched from Paris to Manhattan to Dallas to Hollywood, where she signed substantial contracts for two movies and several appearances on the Danny Kaye and Andy Williams TV shows. Then she rushed back to France to embark on a tour in which she will-sing 46 concerts in 46 days, at $5,000 per performance. Under the stern scrutiny of France's leading impresario, Johnny...
...follow advice as old as Scottish Physicist James Clerk Maxwell, the father of electrical theory, who died in 1879. It was Maxwell who pointed out that resistors could be bent into hairpin turns so that their current flowed in two directions, canceling out capacitance or inductance. Later, Physicist Georges Chaperon wound resistances into intertwined coils with the same result...
...chaperon, of course: creaky old (34) Arnold Palmer, who, with a record $128,230 in the bank this year, seems content to let Jack take home the trophies as long as he takes home the jack. The only local tournament last week was something called the Fig Garden Village Open, and Jack and Arnie flew off to Paris to defend the honor of the U.S. in the Canada Cup-a kind of General Assembly of golf that matched two-man teams from 33 nations...
...with most musicals, the story is a little silly and it would be pointless to recount its intricacies here. The basic problem is the late arrival of Charley's aunt (Johanna Madden) for a senior week-end at Oxford. She is supposed to chaperon Charley (Chuck Breyer), his roommate (Dean Stolber) and their dates. When she doesn't arrive, Charley masquerades as his aunt, leaving everyone to wonder where's Charley...