Word: cornelis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...background, Safran selected symbols of the strong, busy nation that Khrushchev would see when and if he had the patience and interest to look: tall Iowa corn; a white-painted New England church; buildings under construction in U.S. cities; an Army Redstone missile; a gate at Brown University in Providence, R.I.; a new U.S. automobile; the presence of the guiding spirit of Abraham Lincoln...
...FARM OUTPUT will come within 1 % of last year's record high. August rains in most parts of nation are boosting predictions for record corn crop of 4,381,772,000 bushels v. 3,779,844,000 last year, but wheat crop may drop to 1,116,405,000 bushels v. record 1,462,218,000 last year...
Quarters for Corn. Few girls get a break from the jukebox trade these days; the quarters clink in the slot for the grinding corn of Fabian or Frankie Avalon. or the molasses-slow maundering of Johnny Mathis. Lola, who must settle for less, deserves more. She has been learning her trade, scrabbling at the edges of show business, ever since she sang Listen to the Mocking Bird at her home-town Y.W.C.A. in Akron 25 years ago. She was a gawky ten-year-old then, defiant of her parents' dislike of anything that smacked of entertainment. Today...
...interest in a novel called The Mermaid Madonna. No one should make that mistake. Author Stratis Myrivilis is probably the finest of living Greek writers. The Mermaid Madonna is the first of his books to come to the U.S., and even with its liberal dash of corn it introduces a writer who makes the true novelist's commitment, to life itself...
...Fair Lady, with Edwardian charm, The Music Man, with mid-American corn. and Flower Drum Song, with Oriental flair, make a trio of memorable musicals. Redhead cuts a nifty caper-and the fanciest footwork is Gwen Verdon...