Word: coconuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Majesty O'Keefe (Warner) may have a certain novelty for moviegoers who have not yet heard about how the natives were happy until the white man came. Money, says this script, grows on the coconut trees on the western Pacific island of Yap, but nobody bothers to pick it until Burt Lancaster makes port. He blackmails the poor natives into picking coconuts, and even becomes their king. But greed and lust soon pull the kingdom down, and the stage is set for love to conquer all. To satisfy the censors, somebody has to take the rap for Burt...
...three out of five reported that they passed each issue along to friends, relatives or institutions. Reported a reader from Suva, Fiji: "My copy is read by myself and family and then passed on to a number of prominent citizens of Suva and finally finds its way to a coconut plantation for the perusal of the overseers." No copy of TIME, he added, stops circulating while it is still legible enough for one more reading...
...Little Hut is built on a desert island. Three shipwrecked Britishers live there: Philip, his wife Susan, and best friend Henry. Clothed in the dinner jackets and evening gown they were wearing when the ship foundered, these little corners of England brave the balmy wilderness with a pre-dinner coconut milk hour and post dinner coach shell fingerbowls. The total effect is Robinson Crusoc as revised by Noel Coward...
...Coconut Grove, Fla. George Washington Carver School for Negroes, says Alfred Parker, was also designed for "community needs." At night, the home-economics department can become a women's sewing center, and the workshops can be used by men. The school also contains a built-in model house, where the girls can run vacuum cleaners, make beds and learn how to cook. "Homemaking," says Parker, "is especially important, because most of the girls must find work as servants...
...with not-a-shoe), because the word is French for creampuff dough and she used to run a pastry shop in Montmartre. After two highly successful months at New York's Waldorf-Astoria, and a record released by Columbia, Patachou is currently wowing them at Los Angeles' Coconut Grove. Her fans claim she is the biggest thing that happened in France since Mistinguette wore pigtails. What is so special about this ex-pastrycook? Part of the answer lies with her predecessors...