Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most excellent, down-to-earth article. Incidentally, what is to become of those few of us who do still wish to climb Mt. Everest and mine diamonds in South Africa...
...doesn't complain (and neither do I), but no one can pay him enough for the amount of time he puts in, either now or in the future. That isn't particularly why he's doing it. You would like him to go to Africa and mine diamonds I take it. He would be delighted to go to China and study disease (they have so much there), but that doesn't seem quite the thing to do at the moment. A friend of ours isn't interested in "finding a cure for cancer" -he happens...
...Metropolitan Opera debut in La Boheme, Soprano Patrice Munsel found that the tabloids had headlined her in a real-life Fledermaus mixup. Ingenue leads: herself, and a coal-mine heiress named Sally Mundy. Male leads: Gregg Juarez, a sometime television actor, and Robert Schuler, a candy heir who shared the same apartment under an agreement that whoever married first would have his bride move in. Plot: Juarez falls in love with Munsel, Schuler with Mundy. Everyone decides this is a mistake, so they switch affections and engagements. Climax: denials on the part of everyone but Juarez. The whole story, they...
...important than the strategic gain was the fillip to Vietnamese morale and French pride in showing what they could do with the right weapons. There were still vast areas to be retaken from the well-organized Communist guerrillas, but De Lattre could exult: "From now on, the initiative is mine...
...Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. She was the daughter of a Zouave father and . an octoroon mother, and to Willy she seemed as pure & simple as "any little Tahitian before the missionaries got there." After hearing her recount stories of her childhood, Willy realized that she was also a literary gold mine. He locked her in a room, gave her pen & paper, and commanded her to write...