Word: eden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before James Caesar Petrillo put an end to it all on Dec. 31. But who could have guessed that a long-haired Hollywood "hermit," a bearded and usually barefoot character, had a hit song in his pocket? No one did-except Nat ("King") Cole. And last week, with Eden Ahbez' Nature Boy, King Cole and Capitol Records had the biggest musical scoop since...
Last fall Eden, who wears his hair shoulder-length, practices breath control and eats only fruits, nuts and vegetables, shuffled into Los Angeles' Lincoln Theater. He had a manuscript he wanted Cole to see ("I like the gentleness with which he plays"). Then he took off for the desert to commune with Avak the Healer ("Although we needed an interpreter, we spoke the same language inside...
Head Music. Eden Ahbez (who signs his name with small letters because he believes that "only God and the Infinite should be capitalized") looks like a fugitive from Mysore, but is actually from Brooklyn by way of Kansas. Now 35, Eden says he has been hearing wonderful music in his head ever since he can remember...
...Babel to Eden. In quiet Havana, distant from the main stream of events, 53 nations last week signed and tossed into history's lap a weighty compact. Typically, the nations' delegates were apt to speak not of "free trade," but of "freer trade." In the smudged lexicon of economic diplomacy, "freer" meant less free, not more free. The term indicated that the best anyone could hope for was a slow, gradual removal of the tangled barriers, prohibitions and nationalist restrictions. At Geneva last year 18 nations had managed to write a draft charter for the proposed International Trade...
...Tories brought in their heavy artillery: Anthony Eden (currently recovering from an appendectomy in a London hospital) made an evening visit, and Winston Churchill motored over a twelve-mile route, chewing a cigar, extending his "V" sign, stopping frequently for short bursts of Churchillian oratory...