Word: ginger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spectacular No. 4 (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC) was the best spectacular yet. Directed by Hollywood's Otto Preminger and starring Ginger Rogers in three short plays by Noel Coward, the show started slowly with a vaudeville skit that was notable for the expertness of Ginger's cockney accent. The second playlet, Still Life, co-starred Ginger with Britain's Trevor Howard, but it lacked the pathos of either the 1936 Broadway original (starring Noel Coward and the late Gertrude Lawrence) or the movie version, Brief Encounter. But in the third number, Shadow Play, Ginger was romantically believable...
Producers' Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC-TV). Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30 (in color) with Ginger Rogers...
...Plantagenets really lived it up. They dined on roast lark, ginger fritters and porcupine seethed in almond milk, and their halls were strewed with cartloads of rose petals. The Plantagenets' brides were not so hot, but their mistresses were every bit as toothsome as the ginger fritters. Such a dish was Katherine de Roet, the daughter of an obscure herald. She had scarcely settled down at the court of Edward III when she was nearly raped by a dour Saxon knight. The gay John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, later prominent in Shakespeare ("Live in thy shame...
...World War II, when others again cautiously retired to safety, Perkins had the courage to expand once more, thus was ready to cash in on Britain's postwar boom in trucking. "Ginger" Perkins built a 575,000-sq.-ft. plant in Peterborough, Northamptonshire that he claims turns out more diesel engines than any other plant in the world. In six years he boosted sales of Perkins Ltd. from $6 million to almost $39 million. Last week Ginger Perkins was ready to start deliveries on his latest big order: 2,000 diesel engines (at $700 apiece) to Yugoslavia for tractors...
...Ginger Snaps. For weeks as Elizabeth approached Uganda, Non-Smoker Sir Andrew had gone about distractedly nibbling ginger snaps and calling Whitehall at all hours of the day and night. One result of his agitated conferences with London was a last-minute cancellation of the Queen's visit to Kampala. But even with the ceremonial greetings restricted largely to his own well-guarded Government House at Entebbe, Sir Andrew felt far from secure. Last week, on Cohen's lawn, Acholi warriors and women, adorned with leopard skins, ostrich feathers and giraffe tails, pranced to the beat of jungle...