Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turning 25, Japan's slender, donnish Prince Akihito downed green tea and bean cakes at a sedate trio of parties (one with his kin, another with Fiancee Michiko Shoda, a third with 60 old classmates at Gakushuin University), tentatively accepted a birthday gift designed to cement the bonds between the budget-conscious imperial family and a local construction firm: an offer to build the foundations and outer shell (cost: $150,000) of Akihito's new, 45-room palace for a kowtowing $27.78. Apparently more concerned with imperial honor than with imperial bargains, however, Tokyo's noisy newspapers...
Cabaret humor is apt to be as brittle as a glass swizzle stick. Moved to the big, turbulent Broadway stage, it usually breaks. But two expert swizzlers have managed the transfer: Betty Comden and Adolph Green. They started in the '30s, in Manhattan's satirical cellar nightclubs, but eventually the two brightest kids underground emerged above ground as two of the sharpest adults writing musicomedy (book and lyrics for Two on the Aisle, On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby). This season Comden and Green are more visible than ever, with two flourishing Broadway shows-Say, Darling, Bells...
...Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green, a nostalgic anthology of their own works, is anything but elaborate: three stools for props, a couple of quick dress changes for Betty, one shirt switch for Adolph. What makes the show remarkable is that chic, cleancut Betty, 39, and fast, Fernandel-faced Adolph, 43, are not one wit changed from their cellar years...
What Is "Harmless?" Where the gap between day and night temperatures is wide enough, oranges turn orange as they ripen on the trees. But Florida nights average so warm that oranges often remain green even when fully ripe. Since U.S. housewives want orange oranges, the Florida orange industry turns green oranges yellow by exposing them to ethylene gas, then colors them orange with a coal-tar dye called...
...Music Man. All the wonderful brass and blare of a band concert on the town green...