Word: coconut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apart from Major Hall's crochet hooks. the image that lingers longest with the reader is that of poor Ella Haggin on a coconut isle with the ominous thrum of bongo drums in her ear, while the natives chomp raw fish for an appetizer. Author Eliot confides that eventually Ella got a divorce, but otherwise she leaves this and many another story in just the tantalizingly scrappy shape she found it in family memoirs or the gossip sheets of the gilded age. Either because of fellow feeling (she is herself the child of an Anglo-American match and bears...
Well, almost himself. Billy Bailey is 73 and runs Singapore's Coconut Grove, an obscure and homey bar (no unescorted women allowed) next door to a Buddhist nunnery on Singapore's Cuppage Road. A guitar keeps the air moving. The drinks are on the level, and the talk is good, since Iowa-born, ex-Vaudevillian Bailey does most...
...When the British liberated Singapore in 1945, the Baileys wandered out of prison and into town, found a house marked ENEMY PROPERTY. Bill added a note of his own-"Occupied by Bill Bailey"-and moved in. The couple liked the place, settled down, soon turned it into the Coconut Grove. Old Trouper Bailey had come home at last...
...what they were paying for? It certainly was. The haphazard comedy of balding Clarinetist Phil Ford, 39, and his burbling, bouncy wife, Mimi Hines, 25, was the main attraction at the Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week. Next, they are heading for Los Angeles' Coconut Grove, a stint on the BBC in London and a $3,500-a-week contract with the Tropicana in Las Vegas. Less than two years ago they were hitting the tank towns for $375 a week. Now they are one of the best-paid attractions in the business...
...everybody in the Maldives shares the government's horror at the peaceful invasion, though the islands' simple economy of coir (coconut fiber) and dried fish was totally disrupted by the British arrival. (Also disrupted was the domestic economy of Ceylonese housewives who regard Maldivian fish as an indispensable ingredient of curry, are now limited to a monthly ration of eight ounces per adult.) Gan's schoolteachers quit their jobs to sign on as high-paid laborers on the base, joining the 1,200 workmen imported from Pakistan. A Maldivian official sent from the capital island of Male...