Word: cocos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vaseline and boot polish at night, left fallow until morning and then polished vehemently for maximum glitter. He fondly hopes that Marine officers will once more take to carrying swagger sticks, and in the field he is never without his own oversized version, a polished length of Haitian Coco-macaque wood. His hobbies are muscular: riding, spearfishing, fly-casting. A red-handled fly swatter reposes by his desk; few insects have profaned its orderly surface without becoming casualties of the U.S. Marine Corps...
...York Times, conscientious as all get out in reporting more than its readers either desire or deserve, this week gave a whole column to the vocal attainments of an African grey parrot, including printed musical notes. The parrot, named Coco and thought to be 65 years old, performs nightly in the bar of a Long Island restaurant. In his repertory are a dozen tunes (from Aïda, Carmen, Peer Gynt, etc.), taught to him by the waiters, who are younger but better educated...
...Coco, like many a musical amateur, forgets how the songs go after the first phrases. The tricky grace note in the eighth bar of the drinking song from Traviata stops him every time; he pauses, squawks angrily, and switches to his favorite tune, Ciribiribin. Between arias, he amuses himself by watching for a pretty girl to come in, then gives a long, deliberate wolf whistle. If the girl's escort looks angrily around, Coco screams with laughter...
When the California Palace of the Legion of Honor announced a showing of its most important acquisition in four years-a little-known Renoir they called Coco and Gabrielle (TIME, March 17)-TIME's San Francisco bureau suggested the exhibition as a likely art story. For further background material TIME asked its Los Angeles bureau to interview Gabrielle, one of the painter's favorite models, now living in Hollywood. She had been a nurse for Renoir's son Claude ("Coco...
...when she was shown a color print of the Renoir to be unveiled in San Francisco, Gabrielle studied it for a long time, then said she was not the woman in the picture and that the baby was not Coco. She even doubted that it was a real Renoir...