Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Carl Adrian Wettach, 79, tragicomic, Swiss-born circus clown known as "Crock," who elevated pantomime to an art by playing a tiny fiddle with cotton gloves, moving a piano to a stool rather than stool to piano, shrugged off the world's perplexities with his famed exclamations, "Pourquoi?" (why?) and "Sans blague?" (no kidding?); of a heart attack; in Imperia, Italy...
...play the trombone, but he took up the trumpet, eventually graduated to the small Louisville combos-Tinsley's Royal Aces, Perdue's Pirates, etc. After that he "gigged around" with most of the famous bands of the '20s and '303-Jimmie Lunceford, McKinney's Cotton Pickers, Benny Carter, Fletcher Henderson, Cab Galloway-but eventually all the jobs seemed to peter out, and by the time The Embers offer came along, Jonah had been playing in Broadway pit orchestras...
Into Bangkok last week to star in an all-cotton fashion show and present two high-style cotton dresses to Thailand's Queen Sirikit flew the U.S.A.'s 1959 Maid of Cotton, pretty, blue-eyed, brunette Malinda Diggs Berry, 21-year-old Oklahoma State University coed. Like a debutante on a grand tour, Malinda arrived with a chaperone, a pressagent and nine suitcases containing 25 costume changes (including a native dress for each land she would visit). But she had little time to enjoy them. Hardly was she through with her style show when...
...passed out at trade fairs in West Germany, U.S. poultrymen got orders for millions of pounds of frozen dressed poultry. When samples of U.S. cigarettes were handed out in Thailand, purchases of cigarettes made from U.S. tobacco jumped from 7,000,000 to 14 million in a month. Lately cotton consumption has risen 12% in France, 11% in West Germany, and 20% in Japan following trade-fair promotions. Industry sources believe the current 5,700,000-bale foreign market can be boosted to 8,000,000. Says the Cotton Council: "If we could get world cotton consumption per capita...
...schedule of morning services is as follows: Tuesday, June 30: William Y. Elliott; Wed.-Fri, July 1-3: the Reverend Daniel C. Whitsett, Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church; Mon.-Tues. July 6-7, Dr. Dana M. Cotton; Wed.-Fri., July 8-10, George A. Selleck, United Ministry to Students; Mon.-Wed., July 13-15, The Reverend James R. Blanning, United Ministry to Students; Thurs.-Fri., July 16-17, The Reverend Ronald D. Maitland, United Ministry to Students; Mon.-Tues. July 20-21, Professor H. Anderson; Wed.-Fri., July 22-24, Rev. R. Jerrold Gibson, United Ministry to Students; Mon.-Tues., July...