Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college musical. It was written for Japan's first postwar movie, Soyokaze (Gentle Breeze), by Hachiro Sato and Tadashi Manjome, the Rodgers & Hammerstein of Japan's Tin Pan Alley. Lyricist Sato, a paunchy little Jap with a luxuriant ebony mustache, is Japan's Edgar Guest, turns out 50 homey verses a month for newspapers and radio. He wrote Song of the Apple before breakfast one morning in bed, after deciding that most Japanese were thinking about food these days. He rejected rice as unromantic, chose the apple because it is his favorite fruit...
...Door." Its 75-year-old author, J. Otis Swift, who has been writing it 24 years, is convinced that he accounts for 100,000 of the Telly's 387,087 readers. Last week, at Manhattan's Cornish Arms Hotel, white-shocked, sprightly J. Otis Swift was guest of honor at the 23rd Annual Ball and Reunion of the Yosian Brotherhood of Nature Philosophers, of which he is World Leader...
...every four years he has brought out a small folder, reaffirming his faith. The last one (in 1940) was headlined: "Yosians Walk on Weekends into the Land of the Soul." Most of the 150,000 members who sign up are, says Swift, lonely, middleaged, ordinary people. Frequently Swift is guest of honor at an all-Yosian wedding...
...changing course of banana empire, United Fruit's "Great White Fleet" would operate on a large scale for the first time in the Pacific. There, presumably, it would continue to accommodate passengers in the spirit of the Great White Fleet's unofficial motto: "Every banana a guest, every passenger a pest...
...McCrarys now inhabit a guest house on the Jock Whitney estate at Manhasset, L.I. While Tex learns the magazine business, ex-Model Jinx will write, have a baby, "go into a play next season," play tennis again-in that order...