Word: hy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Banana (words & music by Johnny Mercer; book by Hy Kraft; produced by Paula Stone & Mike Sloane) is the most enjoyable show, considering how many things are wrong with it, that Broadway has seen in years. Few recent musicals have been so generally fast on their feet; fewer still have been so truly funny. And none has been more of a one-man show...
...stock. Thanks to that dream, dozens of sharp, fly-by-night promoters in Toronto have struck it rich peddling worthless penny stocks to Americans. Spurred by the boom in Canadian oil (TIME, Sept. 24), dealers have flooded the U.S. with literature on such "promising opportunities" as Hy-Flow Petroleum, Golden Fleece Mines and Uranium Explorations, Ltd., have been able to bilk U.S. suckers of some $50 million (swindlers' estimate) a year. Sample come-on: "Our first stunned enthusiasm was fully warranted . . . This is the opportunity we had always dreamed about...
...Banana is an old burlesque term for the star of the show, the main act on the bill, the comedian with the baggiest pants. In Hy Kraft's story, the Top Banana has reached the highest point in the amusement industry. He has his own television show...
...Longing, by Arthur Koestler. Agnostic Hydie and the commissar; a Koestler allegory of East, West and Hy-die's slow enlightenment. No Darkness at Noon (TIME...