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...vessel is seized. The Libyan government recently moved to new extremes, and so did Mobil. To the taboo list, the Libyan government added-and the company complied with-Jaffa orange juice canned in Norway or Canada and four products that have no Israeli connections at all: Brazilian beer and ginger ale, Trinidadian orange juice and Swedish matches. Reason: the labels of all four have six-pointed symbols vaguely similar to the Israeli Star of David. For example, Swedish Three-Star matches carry a trio of six-pointed symbols, and Brazilian Antarctica ginger ale has a six-pointed star...
...Hello, Dolly! was the original Dolly, Carol Charming, who opened the show on Jan. 16, 1964. Hello, Dolly! went on to become Broadway's longest-running musical, with 2,844 performances (My Fair Lady is second with 2,717). Channing was followed in Dolly's role by Ginger Rogers, Martha Raye, Betty Grable, Pearl Bailey, Phyllis Diller and, finally, by Ethel Merman, who belted out the final hellos last week and then took the final curtain calls. "I feel sad and happy," said Ethel, "it's a bittersweet ending...
Back in the Depression-haunted '30s, Hollywood was grinding out musicals; Ginger Rogers, dressed in coins, sang We're in the Money and Fred Astaire sang A Fine Romance. The '70s' Longuettes, bottoming Dow Jones, and massive strikes seem reflections of that epoch. So does Love Story, a bit of leftover tinsel that glows like gold. And who knows? A little Love Story might be good for you. As it happens, the lachrymose Giants won that game...
...public, Hughes was often seen with the stars of the day−Billie Dove, Lana Turner, Linda Darnell, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Ava Gardner, Ida Lupino. In private, he visited many others−young, eager, and not too prudish unknowns. Hughes called them "crows," but he feared rebuff even from them. It was the job of one of his public relations men to see that the green light was up before Hughes ever appeared on the scene. He once boasted that he had deflowered 200 virgins in Hollywood; the wonder was that he could find so many...
...exposed vein in the cliffs on the other side of the inlet and carried by the waves to the beach by the cabin. Their dinner table is a huge telephone cable spool, sanded, stained and polished to a rich shine; a bunch of dried wildflowers and some fresh ginger hangs from a rafter; neatly assembled shelves and counters of scrap wood line the kitchen walls...