Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carmen Jones (music by Georges Bizet; book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; produced by Billy Rose) turns the opera that Sir Thomas Beecham once called "the sturdiest oak in the operatic forest" into the most brilliant show on Broadway. If Bizet's Carmen and the all-Negro Carmen Jones live, artistically, on different sides of the railroad tracks, they nevertheless represent the shortest distance between one exciting kind of job and another. Drastic changes have been made. Carmen has been retired in a kiln, not warmed over in an oven. There is no capricious tinkering for tinkering...
Last fortnight Major Ted Cragg, of Greenwich, stepped out in front of the Fifth Fighter Command. Nine times his name was called, medals, stars or Oak Leaf Clusters were pinned to his tunic for each citation. They had been won over a long period, and they made him (with Major Thomas Lynch) the most decorated fighter pilot in the Southwest Pacific...
...House of Commons, to replace the one lost by bombs May 10, 1941; one with bigger galleries for press and public, better ventilation, modern lavatories. But not another shape or a bigger floor. The century-old, oblong (75 ft. by 45 ft.) hall with its high ceiling, oak paneling and green, leather-covered facing benches accommodated 476 of the 615 members, and in the Prime Minister's view that was just right...
When Sam is home he helps in the chores, visits in the Bonham general store, rides about the ranch to inspect his 200 white-faced cattle. Sam's favorite spot is the one-story ranch house, nestled in a grove of oak trees. Here is no telephone, no mail delivery; only a yawning fireplace, walnut beds, and electric stove for steak broiling and an old-fashioned icebox, usually filled with watermelons. Here, on the hot summer afternoons, Sam Rayburn lolls around, often in his shorts, letting the sweat roll down his bald head. Or fie inspects the solid fence...
...others show up, he figures on drawing from the 100,000 officers of the Benefactor Foundation. Foundation board members, incidentally, are secret. Explains Lawson: they often shift. Apparently Lawson does too. His home is nowhere more definite than "near Ann Arbor" or in a Detroit suburb-Ferndale or Royal Oak; his Detroit office staff is expert at evasion...